He is not a favourite with Madame Bonaparte, and she asked her husband to dismiss and disgrace him for an act so disgraceful to a grand officer of the Legion of Honour, but was answered, "Were I to turn away all the thieves and rogues that encompass me I should soon cease to reign.
— from Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete by Various

He is not a favourite with Madame Bonaparte, and she asked her husband to dismiss and disgrace him for an act so disgraceful to a grand officer of the Legion of Honour, but was answered, “Were I to turn away all the thieves and rogues that encompass me I should soon cease to reign.
— from Memoirs of the Court of St. Cloud (Being secret letters from a gentleman at Paris to a nobleman in London) — Complete by Lewis Goldsmith

But I've heard it laid down as a rule that every man is supposed to be innocent until you prove that he's guilty—" "And I never could understand why," Mrs Polsue interjected; "seeing that five out of every six persons charged are found guilty.
— from Nicky-Nan, Reservist by Arthur Quiller-Couch

The costume of the Sevillian caballero —and remember that every man in Spain is a cavalier—has suffered, no doubt, in picturesqueness since the time of Don Quixote.
— from The Story of Seville by Walter M. (Walter Matthew) Gallichan

Without doubt those islands would make a very noble settlement, in order to victual and relieve the European merchants in so long a run as they have to make; and when this trade came to be more frequented, the calling of those ships there would enrich the islands, as the English at St. Helena are enriched by the refreshing which the East India ships find that meet there.
— from A New Voyage Round the World by a Course Never Sailed Before by Daniel Defoe