Famous quotes containing the word doubtful:
“A doubtful choice, of these three which to crave,
A kingdom, or a cottage, or a grave.”
—Edward De Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford (15501604)
“The man of large and conspicuous public service in civil life must be content without the Presidency. Still more, the availability of a popular man in a doubtful State will secure him the prize in a close contest against the first statesman of the country whose State is safe.”
—Rutherford Birchard Hayes (18221893)
“What I loved in the man was his health, his unity with himself; all people and all things seemed to find their quite peaceable adjustment with him, not a proud domineering one, as after doubtful contest, but a spontaneous-looking peaceable, even humble one.”
—Thomas Carlyle (17951881)
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