"Woman is a delightful instrument of pleasure, but……" — Honore de Balzac

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• I look upon statistics as the handmaid of medicine, but on that very account I hold that it befits medicine… — Karl Pearson
• Outward simplicity befits ordinary men, like a garment made to measure for them; but it serves as an adornment to… — Jean de la Bruyere
• Since we astronomers are priests of the highest God in regard to the book of nature, it befits us to… — Johannes Kepler
• Bistro cooking is good, traditional food, earnestly made and honestly displayed. It is earthy, provincial, or bourgeois; as befits that… — David Liederman
• If every tool, when ordered, or even of its own accord, could do the work that befits it... then there… — Aristotle
• Though violence is not lawful, when it is offered in self-defense or for the defense of the defenseless, it is… — Mahatma Gandhi
• I can't help but believe that in the future we will see in the United States and throughout the Western… — Ronald Reagan
• As befits Silicon Valley, 'big data' is mostly big hype, but there is one possibility with genuine potential: that it… — Evgeny Morozov
• Blind is his love and best befits the dark- Benvolio (in Romeo and Juliet) — William Shakespeare
• That which befits us, embosomed in beauty and wonder as we are, is cheerfulness, and courage, and the endeavor to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Barack Obama is an elegant and literate man with a cosmopolitan sense of the world. He is widely read in… — Teju Cole
• The Chinese, as befits a Communist autocracy, approached the task of dominating the Olympics with top-down military discipline. — Shashi Tharoor

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