Famous quotes containing the words wells, gray and/or provincial:
“I have always hated biography, and more especially, autobiography. If biography, the writer invariably finds it necessary to plaster the subject with praises, flattery and adulation and to invest him with all the Christian graces. If autobiography, the same plan is followed, but the writer apologizes for it.”
—Carolyn Wells (1862–1942)
“But I’ll do my best a gude wife ay to be,
For auld Robin Gray he is kind unto me.”
—Lady Anne Lindsay (1750–1825)
“The dead level of provincial existence.”
—George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)
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