Famous quotes containing the words provincial and/or election:
“The dead level of provincial existence.”
—George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)
“Well, I am chiefly interested in the renomination, so don’t get disconsolate over that. If we lost the election I shall feel that the party is rejected, whereas if I fail to secure the renomination it will be a personal defeat.”
—William Howard Taft (1857–1930)