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Les Misérables 2By Victor Hugo ContextHighlight In BOOK 6: CHAPTER V—DISTRACTIONS
2 The greatest favorites of destiny make mistakes.
Les Misérables 2By Victor Hugo ContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VII—NAPOLEON IN A GOOD HUMOR
3 He did not ignore the fact that therein lay his greatest duty and his greatest labor.
Les Misérables 1By Victor Hugo ContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV—WORKS CORRESPONDING TO WORDS
4 He set to feeling the pockets of Jean Valjean and Marius, with the greatest familiarity.
Les Misérables 5By Victor Hugo ContextHighlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VIII—THE TORN COAT-TAIL
5 The greatest follies are often composed, like the largest ropes, of a multitude of strands.
Les Misérables 2By Victor Hugo ContextHighlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER X—WHICH EXPLAINS HOW JAVERT GOT ON THE SCENT
6 It is chiefly at the moment when there is the greatest need for attaching them to the painful realities of life, that the threads of thought snap within the brain.
Les Misérables 1By Victor Hugo ContextHighlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER VIII—AN ENTRANCE BY FAVOR
7 Turn your Christian spirit and cast a look of compassion on this unfortunate Spanish victim of loyalty and attachment to the sacred cause of legitimacy, who has given with his blood, consecrated his fortune, evverything, to defend that cause, and to-day finds himself in the greatest missery.
Les Misérables 3By Victor Hugo ContextHighlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER III—QUADRIFRONS
8 Moreover, and this rendered the conjecture all the more probable, the coarse and yellow paper was the same in all four, the odor of tobacco was the same, and, although an attempt had been made to vary the style, the same orthographical faults were reproduced with the greatest tranquillity, and the man of letters Genflot was no more exempt from them than the Spanish captain.
Les Misérables 3By Victor Hugo ContextHighlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER III—QUADRIFRONS
9 The garret, the cellar, the lowly ditch where certain indigent wretches crawl at the very bottom of the social edifice, is not exactly the sepulchre, but only its antechamber; but, as the wealthy display their greatest magnificence at the entrance of their palaces, it seems that death, which stands directly side by side with them, places its greatest miseries in that vestibule.
Les Misérables 3By Victor Hugo ContextHighlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER VI—THE WILD MAN IN HIS LAIR