If ever I do escape, no one shall reproach me with having broken or violated my faith, not having given my word to any one, whosoever it may be.
JOAN OF ARCIt is true that the king has made a truce with the duke of Burgundy for fifteen days and that the duke is to turn over the city of Paris at the end of fifteen days.
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Even though I saw the executioner and the fire, I could not say anything but what I have said.
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It is true that the king has made a truce with the duke of Burgundy for fifteen days and that the duke is to turn over the city of Paris at the end of fifteen days.
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Children say that people are hung sometimes for speaking the truth.
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Yet you should not marvel if I do not enter that city so quickly.
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Act, and God will act.
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Of the love or hatred God has for the English, I know nothing, but I do know that they will all be thrown out of France, except those who die there.
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What concerns this dress is a small thing – less than nothing. I did not take it by the advice of any man in the world.
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Men are sometimes hanged for telling the truth.
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It is true I wished to escape; and so I wish still: is not this lawful for all prisoners?
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Watch! When the wind blows my banner against the bulwark, you shall take it.
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The Maid and her soldiers will have the victory. Therefore the Maid is willing that you, Duke of Bedford, should not destroy yourself.
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Alas! that my body, clean and whole, never been corrupted, today must be consumed and burnt to ashes!
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Even little children repeat that oftentimes people are hanged for having told the truth.
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I shall last a year, and but little longer: we must think to do good work in that year.
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Truly, if you were to tear me limb from limb and separate my soul from my body,
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