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The Little Prince · 1943
I have lived a great deal among grown-ups. I have seen them intimately, close at hand. And that hasn’t much improved my opinion of them.
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The speaker reports having spent plenty of time around adults and observing them up close, yet says the experience has not raised their opinion of them. It is a dry, disappointed verdict: familiarity has brought disillusion rather than admiration.
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