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1  The society need not be secret if the government allows it.
War and Peace 6 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 16: CHAPTER XIV
2  But to the old countess those contemporaries of hers seemed to be the only serious and real society.
War and Peace 6 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 16: CHAPTER XIII
3  At that moment it seemed to him that he was chosen to give a new direction to the whole of Russian society and to the whole world.
War and Peace 6 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 16: CHAPTER XVI
4  The young Countess Bezukhova was not often seen in society, and those who met her there were not pleased with her and found her neither attractive nor amiable.
War and Peace 6 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 16: CHAPTER X
5  His capers reminded him of dancing, and looking at the child's round happy little face he thought of what she would be like when he was an old man, taking her into society and dancing the mazurka with her as his old father had danced Daniel Cooper with his daughter.
War and Peace 6 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 16: CHAPTER IX
6  Two months previously when Pierre was already staying with the Rostovs he had received a letter from Prince Theodore, asking him to come to Petersburg to confer on some important questions that were being discussed there by a society of which Pierre was one of the principal founders.
War and Peace 6 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 16: CHAPTER XI
7  Similarly a man who committed a murder twenty years ago and has since lived peaceably and harmlessly in society seems less guilty and his action more due to the law of inevitability, to someone who considers his action after twenty years have elapsed than to one who examined it the day after it was committed.
War and Peace 6 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 17: CHAPTER IX