Provincial Average

Famous quotes containing the words provincial and/or average:

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

“The idea that leisure is of value in itself is only conditionally true.... The average man simply spends his leisure as a dog spends it. His recreations are all puerile, and the time supposed to benefit him really only stupefies him.”
—H.L. (Henry Lewis)