“Good morning,” said the little prince.
“Good morning,” said the merchant. This was
a merchant who sold pills that had been invented to quench thirst.
You need only swallow one pill a week, and you would feel no need of anything to
drink.
“Why are you selling those?” asked the
little prince.
“Because they save a tremendous amount of
time,” said the merchant.
“Computations have been made by experts.
With these pills, you save fifty-three minutes in every week.”
“And what do I do with those fifty-three
minutes?”
“Anything you like. . . ”
“As for me,” said the little prince to
himself, “if I had fifty-three minutes to spend as I liked, I should walk at my
leisure toward a spring of fresh water.”
Antoine
de Saint-Exupéry
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