Francois Rabelais book Gargantua and Pantagruel
Et guerre faicte sans bonne provision d'argent, n'a qu'un souspirail de vigueur. Les nerfz des batailles sont les pecunes.
Source: Gargantua and Pantagruel (1532–1564), Gargantua (1534), Chapter 44.
“Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand - …”
— George Eliot, book Silas Marner
Source: Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe (1861), Chapter 18 (at page 163)
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