Provincial Library

Famous quotes containing the words provincial and/or library:

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

“I view askance a book that remains undisturbed for a year. Oughtn’t it to have a ticket of leave? I think I may safely say no book in my library remains unopened a year at a time, except my own works and Tennyson’s.”
—Carolyn Wells (1862–1942)