Famous quotes containing the words land, state and/or provincial:
“The land may vary more;
But wherever the truth may be—
The water comes ashore,
And the people look at the sea.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)
“Decency ... must be an even more exhausting state to maintain than its opposite. Those who succeed seem to need a stupefying amount of sleep.”
—Quentin Crisp (b. 1908)
“The dead level of provincial existence.”
—George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)
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