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1  The laws of September are open to sight.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER III—LOUIS PHILIPPE
2  I do not blame the law, but I bless God.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV—WORKS CORRESPONDING TO WORDS
3  The least possible sin is the law of man.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV—WORKS CORRESPONDING TO WORDS
4  He had just robbed the laws of a man who belonged to them.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—JAVERT
5  Make as many laws as you please, men; but keep them for yourselves.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER V—IT IS NOT NECESSARY TO BE DRUNK IN ORDER TO BE ...
6  Athwart the state, the laws, athwart prosperity and the insolence of others.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER I—THE SURFACE OF THE QUESTION
7  This class of women is consigned by our laws entirely to the discretion of the police.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER XIII—THE SOLUTION OF SOME QUESTIONS CONNECTED ...
8  The sea is the inexorable social night into which the penal laws fling their condemned.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VIII—BILLOWS AND SHADOWS
9  It is wrong to become absorbed in the divine law to such a degree as not to perceive human law.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV—WORKS CORRESPONDING TO WORDS
10  There occur formidable hours in our civilization; there are moments when the penal laws decree a shipwreck.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VI—JEAN VALJEAN
11  This poor fellow occasionally let slip inconsiderate remarks, which the law then stigmatized as seditious speeches.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XI—A RESTRICTION
12  Like us, you have prejudices, superstitions, tyrannies, fanaticisms, blind laws lending assistance to ignorant customs.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 9: CHAPTER VI—THE GRASS COVERS AND THE RAIN EFFACES
13  A member of the Convention produced on him somewhat the effect of being outside the pale of the law, even of the law of charity.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER X—THE BISHOP IN THE PRESENCE OF AN UNKNOWN LIGHT
14  The guillotine is the concretion of the law; it is called vindicte; it is not neutral, and it does not permit you to remain neutral.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV—WORKS CORRESPONDING TO WORDS
15  It is one of the laws of those fresh years of suffering and trouble, of those vivacious conflicts between a first love and the first obstacles, that the young girl does not allow herself to be caught in any trap whatever, and that the young man falls into every one.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VII—TO ONE SADNESS OPPOSE A SADNESS AND A HALF
16  In summer, he metamorphoses himself into a frog; and in the evening, when night is falling, in front of the bridges of Austerlitz and Jena, from the tops of coal wagons, and the washerwomen's boats, he hurls himself headlong into the Seine, and into all possible infractions of the laws of modesty and of the police.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VIII—IN WHICH THE READER WILL FIND A CHARMING ...
17  They fabricate systems, they recast society, they demolish the monarchy, they fling all laws to the earth, they put the attic in the cellar's place and my porter in the place of the King, they turn Europe topsy-turvy, they reconstruct the world, and all their love affairs consist in staring slily at the ankles of the laundresses as these women climb into their carts.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER VI—THE SUBSTITUTE
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