Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.
In the original French
Les grandes personnes ne comprennent jamais rien toutes seules, et c’eSt fatigant, pour les enfants, de toujours et toujours leur donner des explications.
The Little Prince · 1943
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De Saint-Exupery, Antoine. Le Petit Prince [The Little Prince]. Reynal & Hitchcock, 1943, ch. 1.