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For want of me the world’s course will not fail;
When all its work is done the lie shall rot;
The truth is great and shall prevail
When none cares whether it prevail or not.
--
Magna est Veritas, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

 

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Down in adoration falling,
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