Famous quotes containing the words provincial and/or capital:
“The dead level of provincial existence.”
—George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)
“There is no private house in which people can enjoy themselves so well as at a capital tavern.... No, Sir; there is nothing which has yet been contrived by man by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn.”
—Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)