"A doubtful throne is ice on summer seas." — Alfred Lord Tennyson

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• A doubtful friend is worse than a certain enemy. Let a man be one thing or the other, and we… — Aesop
• In doubtful cases the more liberal interpretation must always be preferred. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
• An author values a compliment even when it comes from a source of doubtful competency. — Mark Twain
• Doubtful prayer is no prayer at all. — John Calvin
• Avarice often produces opposite results: there are an infinite number of persons who sacrifice their property to doubtful and distant… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
• We ought not to be over-anxious to encourage innovation in cases of doubtful improvement, for an old system must ever… — Charles Caleb Colton
• The whole history of these books (i.e. the Gospels) is so defective and doubtful that it seems vain to attempt… — Thomas Jefferson
• Anxiety is the poison of human life; the parent of many sins and of more miseries. In a world where… — Tryon Edwards
• The only use for an atomic bomb is to keep somebody else from using one. It can give us no… — George Wald
• The man who sets out to carry a cat by its tail learns something that will always be useful and… — Mark Twain
• In necessary things, unity; in doubtful things, liberty; in all things, charity. — Anne Baxter

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