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• Small natures require despotism to exercise their sinews, as great souls thirst for equality to give play to their heart. — Honore de Balzac
• The sinews of art and literature, like those of war, are money. — Samuel Butler
• The sinews of war are infinite money. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
• The sinews of war are not gold, but good soldiers. — Niccolo Machiavelli
• Were not the disadvantages of slavery too obvious to stand in need of it, I might enumerate and describe the tedious train… — Alexander Hamilton
• Money is the sinews of love, as of war. — George Farquhar
• It sloweth age, it strengtheneth youth, it helpeth digestion, it abandoneth melancholie, it relisheth the heart, it lighteneth the mind, it quickenth… — Joseph Lyons
• The sinews of war are not gold, but good soldiers; for gold alone will not procure good soldiers, but good soldiers will… — Niccolo Machiavelli
• We must in imagination sweep off the drifted matter that clogs the surface of the ground; we must suppose all the covering… — Adam Sedgwick
• The sinews of war are five - men, money, materials, maintenance (food) and morale. — Ernest Hemingway
• O painter skilled in anatomy, beware lest the undue prominence of the bones, sinews and muscles cause you to become a wooden… — Leonardo da Vinci
• Firmness of purpose is one of the most necessary sinews of character, and one of the best instruments of success. Without it,… — Lord Chesterfield

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