Provincial Average

Famous quotes containing the words provincial and/or average:

“The dead level of provincial existence.”
—George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)

“Does there, I wonder, exist a being who has read all, or approximately all, that the person of average culture is supposed to have read, and that not to have read is a social sin? If such a being does exist, surely he is an old, a very old man.”
—Arnold Bennett (1867–1931)