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1 The cities make ferocious men because they make corrupt men.
Les Misérables 1By Victor Hugo ContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VI—JEAN VALJEAN
2 , being a garrison town, opportunities for corruption abounded.
Les Misérables 1By Victor Hugo ContextHighlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER II—MADELEINE
3 Slang, being the dialect of corruption, quickly becomes corrupted itself.
Les Misérables 4By Victor Hugo ContextHighlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER II—ROOTS
4 Slang, being the dialect of corruption, quickly becomes corrupted itself.
Les Misérables 4By Victor Hugo ContextHighlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER II—ROOTS
5 Success; that is the lesson which falls drop by drop from the slope of corruption.
Les Misérables 1By Victor Hugo ContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XII—THE SOLITUDE OF MONSEIGNEUR WELCOME
6 Contact with an evil man sometimes suffices to corrupt a good action and to cause evil things to spring from it.
Les Misérables 5By Victor Hugo ContextHighlight In BOOK 9: CHAPTER IV—A BOTTLE OF INK WHICH ONLY SUCCEEDED IN ...
7 There is corruption under all illustrious tyrants, but the moral pest is still more hideous under infamous tyrants.
Les Misérables 4By Victor Hugo ContextHighlight In BOOK 10: CHAPTER II—THE ROOT OF THE MATTER
8 It seemed evident that certain Spanish officers charged with resistance yielded too easily; the idea of corruption was connected with the victory; it appears as though generals and not battles had been won, and the conquering soldier returned humiliated.
Les Misérables 2By Victor Hugo ContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER III—THE ANKLE-CHAIN MUST HAVE UNDERGONE A CERTAIN ...
9 She wore a gown of mauve barege, little reddish brown buskins, whose ribbons traced an X on her fine, white, open-worked stockings, and that sort of muslin spencer, a Marseilles invention, whose name, canezou, a corruption of the words quinze aout, pronounced after the fashion of the Canebiere, signifies fine weather, heat, and midday.
Les Misérables 1By Victor Hugo ContextHighlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER III—FOUR AND FOUR