A. W.
Sunningdale.
"_Magna est Veritas et praevalebit._"--I was asked the other day whence
came this hackneyed quotation. It is taken from the uncanonical Scriptures,
3 Esdras iv. 41.:
"Et desiit loquendo: Et omnes populi clamaverunt, et dixerunt: Magna
est veritas, et _praevalet_."
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