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Children say that people are hanged sometimes for speaking the truth.

— Joan of Arc

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"Et dixit quod dictum parvorum puerorum est quod aliquando homines bene suspenduntur pro dicendo veritatem, And she said that it was a saying of small boys that sometimes men are well hanged for speaking truth." (Trial Transcript, Session Three: February 24, 1431.)

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There is a saying among children that sometimes one is hanged for speaking the truth.

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