Famous quotes containing the words provincial and/or capital:
“The divinity in man is the true vestal fire of the temple which is never permitted to go out, but burns as steadily and with as pure a flame on the obscure provincial altar as in Numa’s temple at Rome.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data.”
—Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930)