#doubtful

I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness. ↗

— Queen Victoria

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In these days, it is doubtful that any child may reasonably be expected to succeed in life if he is denied the opportunity of an education. ↗

— Earl Warren

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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

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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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For the last half of my life I have had the doubtful benefit of a brother whose literary reputation is much greater than my own. ↗

— Laurence Housman

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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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It may be doubtful, at first, whether a person is an enemy or friend. Meat, if not properly digested, becomes poison; But poison, if used rightly, may turn medicinal. ↗

— Saskya Pandita

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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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That justice should be administered between men, it is necessary that testimonies of fact be alleged; and that witnesses should apprehend themselves greatly obliged to discover the truth, according to their conscience, in dark and doubtful cases. ↗

— Isaac Barrow

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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