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It has only been observed a single time, by a Turkish astronomer in 1909. 🔊

I told the little prince that baobabs are not bushes, but huge trees the size of churches, and that even if he brought a whole herd of elephants they would not manage to eat a single baobab. 🔊

He blushed, then continued: “If someone loves a flower of which there is only a single one in all the millions and millions of stars, thats enough to make him happy when he looks at them. 🔊

They had a single ring of petals, they took up hardly any space, they never bothered anyone. 🔊

The only people leading lives of idle leisure were the single lamplighter at the North Pole and his colleague at the South Pole; they had to work just twice a year.

The little prince crossed the desert and met no one but a single flower. 🔊

His flower had told him she was the only one of her kind in the whole universe. And here were five thousand more of them, all alike, in a single garden! 🔊

But they could find it in a single rose or in a mouthful of water…” 🔊

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