Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Quote

To give you an idea of the size of the Earth, I will tell you that before the invention of electricity it was necessary to maintain, over the whole of the six continents, a veritable army of 462,511 lamplighters for the street lamps.


Translated by Katherine Woods, The Little Prince, Chapter Fifteen (p. 56), Harcourt, Brace & Co. 1943


To give you an idea of the size of the Earth, I will tell you that before the invention of electricity it was necessary to maintain, over the whole...

To give you an idea of the size of the Earth, I will tell you that before the invention of electricity it was necessary to maintain, over the whole...

To give you an idea of the size of the Earth, I will tell you that before the invention of electricity it was necessary to maintain, over the whole...

To give you an idea of the size of the Earth, I will tell you that before the invention of electricity it was necessary to maintain, over the whole...