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Right is just and true.

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Victor HugoLes Misérables

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They are les misérables - the outcasts, the underdogs. And who is to blame? Is it not the most fallen who have most need of charity?

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Well, listen a moment, Monsieur Mayor; I have often been severe in my life towards others. It was just. I did right. Now if I were not severe towards ...

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At certain moments, the foot slips ; at others, the ground gives way. How many times had that conscience, furious for the right, grasped and overwhelm...

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There are, as we know, powerful and illustrious atheists. At bottom, led back to the truth by their very force, they are not absolutely sure that they...

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This conflict between right and fact has endured since the origins of society. To bring the duel to an end, to consolidate the pure ideal with the hum...