1 Gaze past the people, and you will perceive truth.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XII—THE FUTURE LATENT IN THE PEOPLE 2 There is a way of encountering error while on one's way to the truth.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VI—THE CONSEQUENCES OF HAVING MET A WARDEN 3 To tell the truth, he inclined a little too much to the side of contemplation.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER III—MARIUS GROWN UP 4 In truth, he would have been very much amazed if he had been informed that they were women.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 6: CHAPTER I—THE SOBRIQUET: MODE OF FORMATION OF FAMILY ... 5 The truth is, however, that he had, one day, been robbed of an old pair of boots, to the great triumph of Ma'am Bougon.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER III—QUADRIFRONS 6 The others gave more light, he shed more warmth; the truth is, that he possessed all the qualities of a centre, roundness and radiance.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—A GROUP WHICH BARELY MISSED BECOMING HISTORIC 7 Only two visitors, the bookseller of the Porte-Saint-Jacques and Marius, were admitted to view the thatched cottage at Austerlitz, a brawling name which was, to tell the truth, extremely disagreeable to him.
8 At that epoch, to tell the truth, there were no other inhabitants in the house, except himself and those Jondrettes whose rent he had once paid, without, moreover, ever having spoken to either father, mother, or daughters.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER II—TREASURE TROVE 9 He thought that he had, and he really had, in fact, arrived at the truth of life and of human philosophy, and he had ended by gazing at nothing but heaven, the only thing which Truth can perceive from the bottom of her well.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER V—POVERTY A GOOD NEIGHBOR FOR MISERY 10 He was a peculiar old man, and in very truth, a man of another age, the real, complete and rather haughty bourgeois of the eighteenth century, who wore his good, old bourgeoisie with the air with which marquises wear their marquisates.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I—NINETY YEARS AND THIRTY-TWO TEETH 11 Sooner or later the splendid question of universal education will present itself with the irresistible authority of the absolute truth; and then, those who govern under the superintendence of the French idea will have to make this choice; the children of France or the gamins of Paris; flames in the light or will-o'-the-wisps in the gloom.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER X—ECCE PARIS, ECCE HOMO