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Great is Truth and it will prevail.

— Thomas Brooks is said to have been the first to use the expression (1662)

Magna est veritas et praevalebit.

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is said to have been the first to use the expression (1662); Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), reports it to be found in Walter Scott, Talisman, Chapter XIX; Bishop John Jewel, Samuel Purchas, Microcosmus, and William Thackeray, Roundabout Papers. It may be derived from "O magna vis veritas" found in Cicero, Oratio Pro Cœlio Rufo, XXVI

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