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humanity
 n.  kindness; virtue; all of the inhabitants of the earth
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  Yes," answered Pococurante, "it is noble to write as one thinks; this is the privilege of humanity.
Candide By Voltaire
Context  Highlight   In XXV
2  All the most august, the most sublime, the most charming of humanity, and perhaps outside of humanity, have made puns.
Les Misérables (V1) By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VII—THE WISDOM OF THOLOMYES
3  Therein lay his connection with humanity.
Les Misérables (V1) By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER V—VAGUE FLASHES ON THE HORIZON
4  Thus is war, made by humanity against humanity, despite humanity, explained.
Les Misérables (V2) By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER III—THE ANKLE-CHAIN MUST HAVE UNDERGONE A CERTAIN...
5  Contemplation is, like prayer, one of humanity's needs; but, like everything which the Revolution touched, it will be transformed, and from being hostile to social progress, it will become favorable to it.
Les Misérables (V2) By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER XI—END OF THE PETIT-PICPUS
6  The grandeur of democracy is to disown nothing and to deny nothing of humanity.
Les Misérables (V2) By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER V—PRAYER
7  Nature and humanity both appeal to you at the same time there.
Les Misérables (V3) By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER V—HIS FRONTIERS
8  All those words: rights of the people, rights of man, the social contract, the French Revolution, the Republic, democracy, humanity, civilization, religion, progress, came very near to signifying nothing whatever to Grantaire.
Les Misérables (V3) By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—A GROUP WHICH BARELY MISSED BECOMING HISTORIC
9  He goes to the spectacles which God furnishes gratis; he gazes at the sky, space, the stars, flowers, children, the humanity among which he is suffering, the creation amid which he beams.
Les Misérables (V3) By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER III—MARIUS GROWN UP
10  He gazes so much on humanity that he perceives its soul, he gazes upon creation to such an extent that he beholds God.
Les Misérables (V3) By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER III—MARIUS GROWN UP
11  Out of humanity he chose France; out of the Nation he chose the people; out of the people he chose the woman.
Les Misérables (V3) By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER V—POVERTY A GOOD NEIGHBOR FOR MISERY
12  In this state of mind nothing escaped him, nothing deceived him, and every moment he was discovering the foundation of life, of humanity, and of destiny.
Les Misérables (V4) By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I—THE LARK'S MEADOW
13  He would be like a philologist refusing to examine a fact in language, a philosopher hesitating to scrutinize a fact in humanity.
Les Misérables (V4) By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER I—ORIGIN
14  A force composed of earth and heaven results from humanity and governs it; this force is a worker of miracles; marvellous issues are no more difficult to it than extraordinary vicissitudes.
Les Misérables (V4) By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER IV—THE TWO DUTIES: TO WATCH AND TO HOPE
15  There were mingled with them, nevertheless, life, humanity, all the positiveness of which Marius was capable.
Les Misérables (V4) By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER I—FULL LIGHT
Example Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
16  The administration has delinked human rights from economic aid to under developed nations.
17  I have often thought it would be a blessing if each human being were stricken blind and deaf for a few days at some time during his early adult life.
18  After all a hero is human.
19  He was an agent, not of the capitalist West, but of the spirit of human freedom.
20  Rawls's representative agent is portrayed as a disembodied party devoid of any substantive human characteristics except rationality.
21  Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.
22  Her boss did not display any human traits.
23  Some foreign governments appear happy to gloss over continued human rights abuses.
24  Art and music are among the great products of human civilization.
25  Of earthly goods the best is a good wifeA bad the bitterest curse of human life.
26  Research on athletes and ordinary human subjects has yielded a mixed bag of results.
27  The human body has a symmetry that is basic to our sense of beauty.
28  Freedom of expression is a basic human right.
29  They have shown a ruthless disregard for basic human rights.
30  Contact with other people is a basic human need.