Finishing World

Famous quotes containing the words finishing and/or world:

    Minerva House ... was “a finishing establishment for young ladies,” where some twenty girls of the ages from thirteen to nineteen inclusive, acquired a smattering of everything and a knowledge of nothing.
    Charles Dickens (1812–1870)

    I, a stranger and afraid
    In a world I never made.
    —A.E. (Alfred Edward)