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Les Misérables 4By Victor Hugo ContextHighlight In BOOK 15: CHAPTER I—A DRINKER IS A BABBLER
2 A reason which fasts from science and wisdom grows thin.
Les Misérables 4By Victor Hugo ContextHighlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER IV—THE TWO DUTIES: TO WATCH AND TO HOPE
3 Thus speaks that approximation to wisdom with which the bourgeoisie, that approximation to the people, so willingly contents itself.
Les Misérables 4By Victor Hugo ContextHighlight In BOOK 10: CHAPTER I—THE SURFACE OF THE QUESTION
4 Sometimes, however, coming from those lofty mountains which dominate the moral horizon, justice, wisdom, reason, right, formed of the pure snow of the ideal, after a long fall from rock to rock, after having reflected the sky in its transparency and increased by a hundred affluents in the majestic mien of triumph, insurrection is suddenly lost in some quagmire, as the Rhine is in a swamp.
Les Misérables 4By Victor Hugo ContextHighlight In BOOK 10: CHAPTER II—THE ROOT OF THE MATTER