1 The best of us are not exempt from egotistical thoughts.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 4: CHAPTER III—TWO MISFORTUNES MAKE ONE PIECE OF GOOD ... 2 The best men are often obliged to delegate their authority.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER IX—MADAME VICTURNIEN'S SUCCESS 3 He told him the best truths, which are also the most simple.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV—WORKS CORRESPONDING TO WORDS 4 I quote literally: "One hides one's pear or one's apple as best one may."
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 6: CHAPTER V—DISTRACTIONS 5 Fauchelevent became the best of servitors and the most precious of gardeners.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER VIII—A SUCCESSFUL INTERROGATORY 6 He was intelligent, robust, adroit; he did his best; the master seemed pleased.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER IX—NEW TROUBLES 7 The man bent his steps towards this inn, which was the best in the country-side.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I—THE EVENING OF A DAY OF WALKING 8 Every man, even the best, has within him a thoughtless harshness which he reserves for animals.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIII—WHAT HE BELIEVED 9 We will present a stenographic report of the dialogue which then ensued, to the best of our ability.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER III—MOTHER INNOCENTE 10 The best of minds will have their fetiches, and they sometimes feel vaguely wounded by the want of respect of logic.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER X—THE BISHOP IN THE PRESENCE OF AN UNKNOWN LIGHT 11 Finally, the last method is not to speak to the black man, not to look at him, and to flee at the best speed of one's legs.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER II—IN WHICH THE READER WILL PERUSE TWO VERSES, ... 12 Moreover, the principle is, that in order to get the best of a wild boar, one must employ the science of venery and plenty of dogs.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER X—WHICH EXPLAINS HOW JAVERT GOT ON THE SCENT 13 The terrible spectacle of created things developed tenderness in him; he was occupied only in finding for himself, and in inspiring others with the best way to compassionate and relieve.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIV—WHAT HE THOUGHT 14 You can take me, for here I am: but I have done my best; I concealed myself under another name; I have become rich; I have become a mayor; I have tried to re-enter the ranks of the honest.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER XI—CHAMPMATHIEU MORE AND MORE ASTONISHED 15 He was himself vigorous and formidable; he armed himself with his staff, made a shield of his knapsack, and made his way out of the kennel in the best way he could, not without enlarging the rents in his rags.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I—THE EVENING OF A DAY OF WALKING 16 The counsel for the defence rose, began by complimenting Monsieur l'Avocat-General on his "admirable speech," then replied as best he could; but he weakened; the ground was evidently slipping away from under his feet.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER IX—A PLACE WHERE CONVICTIONS ARE IN PROCESS OF ... 17 He was thinking, no doubt, that this man, whose name is Jean Valjean, had his misfortune only too vividly present in his mind; that the best thing was to divert him from it, and to make him believe, if only momentarily, that he was a person like any other, by treating him just in his ordinary way.
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