The Little Prince Dedication

TO LEON WERTH

I ask children to forgive me for dedicating this book to a grown-up. I have a serious excuse: this grown-up is the best friend I have in the world. I have another excuse: this grown-up can understand everything, even books for children. I have a third excuse: he lives in France where he is hungry and cold. He needs to be comforted. If all these excuses are not enough then I want to dedicate this book to the child whom this grown-up once was. All grown-ups were children first. (But few of them remember it.) So I correct my dedication:

TO LEON WERTH,
WHEN HE WAS A LITTLE BOY

~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Artwork:
Boy” by Katherine Kirkland is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0.

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