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«These are the beautiful people, who, befitting their rank as gods and goddesses of a powerful modern mythology, lead beautiful lives in beautiful houses, attired in beautiful clothes and, ostensibly, thinking only beautiful thoughts.»
«The noblest exercise of the mind within doors, and most befitting a person of quality, is study»
Author: William Ramsay | About: Study | Keywords: befit, befits, befitting, noblest
«The great majority of men, especially in France, both desire and possess a fashionable woman, much in the way one might own a fine horse - as a luxury befitting a young man.»
Author: Stendhal | About: Fashion | Keywords: befit, befits, befitting, fashionable
«Outward simplicity befits ordinary men, like a garment made to measure for them; but it serves as an adornment to those who have filled their lives with great deeds: they might be compared to some beauty carelessly dressed and thereby all the more attractive.»
«A solitary sorrow best befits / Thy lips, and antheming a lonely grief.»
Author: John Keats (Poet) | Keywords: befit, befits, befitting, solitary
«It better befits a man to laugh at life than to lament over it»
Author: Seneca | Keywords: befit, befits, befitting, lament, lamenting
«Speak, do and think as befits Him.»