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Joan of Arc

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Children say that people are hung sometimes for speaking the truth.
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As quoted in World Famous Women: Types of Female Heroism, Beauty, and Influence from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time (1881) by Frank Boott Goodrich, p. 126

 
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