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Men have no more time to understand anything. They buy ready-made things in the shops. But since there are no shops where you can buy friends, men no longer have any friends. Men do not seem to realise that they lose their friends as soon as they leave the shop and buy a ready-made product. To replace their old friends, they must first become new friends and then they can buy their new friends and be happy with them.
Source: The Little Prince
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