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The second planet was lived on by a vain man. "Ah! Ah! I am about to get a visit from a fan!" he shouted from a distance, when he first saw the little prince coming. For, to vain men, all other people are fans. "Good morning," said the little prince. "That is a strange hat you are wearing." "It is a hat for greetings," the vain man replied. "It is to lift to greet when people praise me. Sadly, no one ever comes this way." "Yes?" said the little prince, who did not understand what the vain man was saying. "Clap your hands together," the vain man now told him. The little prince clapped his hands. The vain man lifted his hat in a polite greeting. "This is more fun than the visit to the king," the little prince thought to himself. And he started to clap his hands again. The vain man again lifted his hat to greet. After five minutes of this, the little prince got tired of the game being boring. "And what should one do to make the hat go down?" he asked. But the vain man did not hear him. Vain people only hear praise. "Do you really like me a lot?" he asked the little prince. "What does that mean—'like'?" "To like means that you think I am the most handsome, the best-dressed, the richest, and the smartest man on this planet." "But you are the only man on your planet!" "Please do this for me. Like me anyway." "I like you," said the little prince, shrugging his shoulders a little, "but why does that interest you so much?" And the little prince left. "The adults are certainly very strange," he thought to himself, as he kept on his journey.