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And, if I had turned my eyes to it, what excuse would have been befitting for the fault?

From Divine Comedy, Norton's Translation, Purgatory by Norton, Charles Eliot

The practice cannot have been befitting in any stage of the evolution of human society.

From Moral Philosophy by Rickaby, Joseph , S. J.