Antoine de Saint-Exupery quote: “Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and…”

A quotation from the French novelist, Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.

– Antoine de Saint-Exupery –

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