Province

Province

A province is a territorial unit, almost always an administrative division, within a country or state.

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    The dramatic art would appear to be rather a feminine art; it contains in itself all the artifices which belong to the province of woman: the desire to please, facility to express emotions and hide defects, and the faculty of assimilation which is the real essence of woman.
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    It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.
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