Provincial Level

Famous quotes containing the words provincial and/or level:

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

    There is only one honest impulse at the bottom of Puritanism, and that is the impulse to punish the man with a superior capacity for happiness—to bring him down to the miserable level of “good” men i.e., of stupid, cowardly and chronically unhappy men.
    —H.L. (Henry Lewis)