Famous quotes containing the words provincial and/or committee:
“The dead level of provincial existence.”
—George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)
“It is easy to carp at colleges, and the college, if he will wait for it, will have its own turn. Genius exists there also, but will not answer a call of a committee of the House of Commons. It is rare, precious, eccentric, and darkling.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
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