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befits

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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. Jean de La Bruyère

Give us statehood and your glorious citizenship will be welcome to us and to our children. If you deny us statehood, we decline your citizenship, frankly, proudly, as befits a people who... will preserve their conception of honor, which none can take from them.... Luis Muñoz Marín

Blind is his love and best befits the dark- Benvolio (in Romeo and Juliet) William Shakespeare

As befits Silicon Valley, 'big data' is mostly big hype, but there is one possibility with genuine potential: that it might one day bring loans - and credit histories - to millions of people who currently lack access to them. Evgeny Morozov

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. Jean de La Bruyère

It befits the king to be liberal, for he is sure of never falling into poverty. Portuguese Proverb

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