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I believe that in the end the truth will conquer.

— John Wycliffe Statement to the Duke of Lancaster (1381)

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As quoted in Great Voices of the Reformation : An Anthology (1952) by Harry Emerson Fosdick, p. 37

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I believe that in the end truth will conquer.

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