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1  To tell the truth, he had not heard her.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 15: CHAPTER I—A DRINKER IS A BABBLER
2  But what the drama would gain thereby, truth would lose.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 9: CHAPTER II—MARIUS
3  This is the whole truth, and I do not think that I have omitted anything.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER VII—THE OLD HEART AND THE YOUNG HEART IN THE ...
4  At intervals, truth, that daylight of the human soul, can be descried shining there.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER I—WELL CUT
5  The honesty of a great heart, condensed in justice and truth, overwhelms as with lightning.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER II—THE ROOT OF THE MATTER
6  Not a spark of certainty and truth had been emitted even in the most terrible of collisions.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I—THE LARK'S MEADOW
7  The truth is, that he was no longer in the New Building, but that he was still in great danger.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER III—THE VICISSITUDES OF FLIGHT
8  To know is a sacrament, to think is the prime necessity, truth is nourishment as well as grain.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER IV—THE TWO DUTIES: TO WATCH AND TO HOPE
9  This, without any dissimulation, and also without any exaggeration, is the truth about Louis Philippe.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER III—LOUIS PHILIPPE
10  It put a stop to torture, promulgated the truth, expelled miasma, rendered the century healthy, crowned the populace.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER III—SLANG WHICH WEEPS AND SLANG WHICH LAUGHS
11  Insurrection is a fit of rage on the part of truth; the pavements which the uprising disturbs give forth the spark of right.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER II—THE ROOT OF THE MATTER
12  At times the conscience of the honest man resumed its breathing, so great was the discomfort of that air in which sophisms were intermingled with truths.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV—CRACKS BENEATH THE FOUNDATION
13  But the truth is, that this little school-girl, fresh from the convent, talked with exquisite penetration and uttered, at times, all sorts of true and delicate sayings.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER I—FULL LIGHT
14  Both of them are what history is in the habit of calling good kings; but principles are not to be parcelled out, the logic of the true is rectilinear, the peculiarity of truth is that it lacks complaisance; no concessions, then; all encroachments on man should be repressed.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 13: CHAPTER III—THE EXTREME EDGE
15  A letter without name, without address, without date, without signature, pressing and disinterested, an enigma composed of truths, a message of love made to be brought by an angel and read by a virgin, an appointment made beyond the bounds of earth, the love-letter of a phantom to a shade.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER V—COSETTE AFTER THE LETTER