John Tillotson: Truth is the shortest and nearest way to our end, carrying us thither in a straight line.

Truth is the shortest and nearest way to our end, carrying us thither in a strai — John Tillotson

Truth is the shortest and nearest way to our end, carrying us thither in a straight line.

John Tillotson

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