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1  You are pleased, you've had a good time.
War and Peace 6 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 16: CHAPTER XI
2  Soon after this the children came in to say good night.
War and Peace 6 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 16: CHAPTER XIV
3  He felt the good and bad within himself inextricably mingled and overlapping.
War and Peace 6 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 16: CHAPTER X
4  But only what was really good in him was reflected in his wife, all that was not quite good was rejected.
War and Peace 6 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 16: CHAPTER X
5  If that activity displeases somebody, this is only because it does not agree with his limited understanding of what is good.
War and Peace 6 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 16: CHAPTER I
6  It would take a dozen pages to enumerate all the reproaches the historians address to him, based on their knowledge of what is good for humanity.
War and Peace 6 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 16: CHAPTER I
7  When we do not at all understand the cause of an action, whether a crime, a good action, or even one that is simply nonmoral, we ascribe a greater amount of freedom to it.
War and Peace 6 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 17: CHAPTER IX
8  Yet he loved "our Russian peasants" and their way of life with his whole soul, and for that very reason had understood and assimilated the one way and manner of farming which produced good results.
War and Peace 6 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 16: CHAPTER VII
9  The creditors who had so long been silent, restrained by a vague but powerful influence exerted on them while he lived by the count's careless good nature, all proceeded to enforce their claims at once.
War and Peace 6 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 16: CHAPTER V
10  He was as careful of the sowing and reaping of the peasants' hay and corn as of his own, and few landowners had their crops sown and harvested so early and so well, or got so good a return, as did Nicholas.
War and Peace 6 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 16: CHAPTER VII
11  He was proud of her intelligence and goodness, recognized his own insignificance beside her in the spiritual world, and rejoiced all the more that she with such a soul not only belonged to him but was part of himself.
War and Peace 6 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 16: CHAPTER XV
12  Countess Mary well knew that mood of his, and when she herself was in a good frame of mind quietly waited till he had had his soup and then began to talk to him and make him admit that there was no cause for his ill-humor.
War and Peace 6 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 16: CHAPTER IX
13  Just so it now seems as if we have only to admit the law of inevitability, to destroy the conception of the soul, of good and evil, and all the institutions of state and church that have been built up on those conceptions.
War and Peace 6 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 17: CHAPTER XII
14  This assumption is all the more natural and inevitable because, watching the movement of history, we see that every year and with each new writer, opinion as to what is good for mankind changes; so that what once seemed good, ten years later seems bad, and vice versa.
War and Peace 6 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 16: CHAPTER I
15  At first he watched the serfs, trying to understand their aims and what they considered good and bad, and only pretended to direct them and give orders while in reality learning from them their methods, their manner of speech, and their judgment of what was good and bad.
War and Peace 6 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 16: CHAPTER VII
16  And what is more, we find at one and the same time quite contradictory views as to what is bad and what is good in history: some people regard giving a constitution to Poland and forming the Holy Alliance as praiseworthy in Alexander, while others regard it as blameworthy.
War and Peace 6 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 16: CHAPTER I
17  But even if we assume that fifty years ago Alexander I was mistaken in his view of what was good for the people, we must inevitably assume that the historian who judges Alexander will also after the lapse of some time turn out to be mistaken in his view of what is good for humanity.
War and Peace 6 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 16: CHAPTER I
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