#doubtful

Although a skillful flatterer is a most delightful companion if you have him all to yourself, his taste becomes very doubtful when he takes to complimenting other people. ↗

— Charles Dickens

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So far I, at least, have no fault to find with implications of Hamilton's Federalism, but unfortunately his policy was in certain other respects tainted with a more doubtful tendency. ↗

— Herbert Croly

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I knew it to be very doubtful whether the Cabinet, Parliament, and the country would take this view on the outbreak of war, and through the whole of this week I had in view the probable contingency that we should not decide at the critical moment to support France. ↗

— Edward Grey

#contingency #country #critical #decide #doubtful

I put forward formless and unresolved notions, as do those who publish doubtful questions to debate in the schools, not to establish the truth but to seek it. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

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In doubtful cases the more liberal interpretation must always be preferred. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity. ↗

— Robert Frost

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I cannot explain it; but when difficulties arise, I am not perplexed or doubtful. I know how to meet them. ↗

— Anne Sullivan Macy

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I was a little doubtful about the propriety of going to the Mammoth Cave without a gentleman escort, but if two ladies travel alone they must have the courage of men. ↗

— Maria Mitchell

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Are we a Christian nation now? It's doubtful. But did we start out as one? Without question. ↗

— Pat Robertson

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Beware prejudices. They are like rats, and men's minds are like traps; prejudices get in easily, but it is doubtful if they ever get out. ↗

— Lord Jeffrey

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