Tao Te Ching

The Power of Goodness, the Wisdom Beyond Words
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“I unhappily lost my honor by trusting to his; for he got me with child, and then forsook me... if you, gentlemen, must be making laws, do not turn natural and useful actions into crimes by your prohibitions... and therefore ought, instead of a whipping, to have a statue erected to my memory. [ This fictional speech was so effective, Polly was not only acquitted but the judge married her. ]”

Benjamin Franklin 1706 – 1790 CE
from The Speech of Polly Baker (1794)

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