Il est plus honteux de se défier de ses amis que d'en être trompé —It is more disgraceful to suspect our friends than to be deceived by them.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

In truth, he of the single eye was not a bad fellow at heart, after all; the fiery enemy whose advances he had so often courted that night, had stolen away his good feelings, and set busy devils at work within him, that might have made his hands do some dreadful deed, had not the stranger interposed.
— from Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman

Fraught with this instruction, the Israelite desired a private audience of the Castilian, in which, after an apology for the freedom of his demand, “Signior Don Diego,” said he, “as your fortune hath been so long embezzled by your adversary in Spain, and your correspondence with that country entirely cut off, it is not to be supposed that your finances are at present in such a condition as to maintain the splendour of your family.
— from The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom — Complete by T. (Tobias) Smollett

Lydiades of Megalopolis had done so during Demetrius’s lifetime; and now Aristomachus of Argos, Xeno of Hermione, and Cleonymus of Phlius did the same.
— from The Histories of Polybius, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Polybius

(the Temptation scene), he does so: Desdemona does intercede: Iago begins to poison Othello's mind: the handkerchief is lost, found by Emilia, and given to Iago: he determines to leave it in Cassio's room, and, renewing his [424] attack on Othello, asserts that he has seen the handkerchief in Cassio's hand: Othello bids him kill Cassio within three days, and resolves to kill Desdemona himself.
— from Shakespearean Tragedy: Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth by A. C. (Andrew Cecil) Bradley

The girl called him at 10 o’clock from Fort Worth, about there, Jack got up, took his dog, Sheba, drove down to the Western Union, wired $25 to this, I can’t think of her name.
— from Warren Commission (15 of 26): Hearings Vol. XV (of 15) by United States. Warren Commission

He did such doughty deeds against the Dutch, under Monmouth, that he was made a Captain of Grenadiers.
— from Love Romances of the Aristocracy by Thornton Hall

Her mind was in utter confusion yet as to anything that had befallen her; except that she had some sense of having done some desperate deed, which had caused more trouble than she was worthy of.
— from Alice Lorraine: A Tale of the South Downs by R. D. (Richard Doddridge) Blackmore

[163] Porter was the poet's favourite beverage; but though he quaffed more entire butt than bard beseems , he drank still deeper draughts from the fountain of Helicon.
— from Hogarth's Works, with life and anecdotal descriptions of his pictures. Volume 2 (of 3) by John Ireland

But [Pg 290] nothing could he observe, although he drifted some distance down the river in the hope of seeing her body rise to the surface.
— from The Long Patrol: A Tale of the Mounted Police by H. A. (Hiram Alfred) Cody

He hearee how dey say dat de lion one big dog.
— from Cunnie Rabbit, Mr. Spider and the Other Beef: West African Folk Tales by Henry W. Ward

How does she dare?" "Dare take unto herself the glory of what she calls my incipient cure?
— from The Brentons by Anna Chapin Ray

From nine till eleven a.m. the last named received the strangest throng one could find, senators and lawyers' clerks, duchesses and old clothes-dealers, all the scum that the tempests of Paris landed of a morning at his door; silk dresses, dirty skirts, blouses, dress coats, all of which he received with the same hasty language and the same impatient nervous gestures.
— from The Rush for the Spoil (La Curée): A Realistic Novel by Émile Zola