Guy de Maupassant
Novelist
"Everything is false, everything is possible, everything is doubtful."
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Doubtful
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John Calvin
Theologian, Reformer
"Doubtful prayer is no prayer at all."
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Politician, Philosopher, Orator
"In doubtful cases the more liberal interpretation must always be preferred."
Russell Brand
Comedian, Actor
"As a person I'm a little more doubtful, introspective and analytical."
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Writer, Journalist
"A man was meant to be doubtful about himself, but undoubting about the truth; this has been exactly reversed."
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"They say of me, and so they should, It's doubtful if I come to good."
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"When regard for truth has been broken down or even slightly weakened, all things will remain doubtful."
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"The fortune of war is always doubtful."
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"Many of the historical proverbs have a doubtful paternity."
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"He, who holds out but a doubtful hope of succour to the afflicted, denies it."
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"Strictly speaking, it is doubtful that a photograph can help us understand anything."
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