The Little Prince [小王子英语版] - 20

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But it happened that after walking for a long time through sand, androcks, and snow, the little prince at last came upon a road. And allroads lead to the abodes of men.

"Good morning," he said.

He was standing before a garden, all a-bloom with roses. 

"Good morning," said the roses.The little prince gazed at them. They all looked like his flower."Who are you?" he demanded, thunderstruck."We are roses," the roses said.

And he was overcome with sadness. His flower had told him that shewas the only one of her kind in all the universe. And here were five thousand of them, all alike, in one single garden!

"She would be very much annoyed," he said to himself, "if she shouldsee that... she would cough most dreadfully, and she would pretendthat she was dying, to avoid being laughed at. And I should beobliged to pretend that I was nursing her back to life-- for if Idid not do that, to humble myself also, she would really allowherself to die..."

Then he went on with his reflections: "I thought that I was rich,with a flower that was unique in all the world; and all I had was acommon rose. A common rose, and three volcanoes that come up to myknees-- and one of them perhaps extinct forever... that doesn't makeme a very great prince..."

And he lay down in the grass and cried.