Provincial Government

Famous quotes containing the words provincial and/or government:

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

“Nor the tame will, nor timid brain,
Nor heavy knitting of the brow
Bred that fierce tooth and cleanly limb
And threw him up to laugh on the bough;
No government appointed him.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)