Famous quotes containing the words tale and/or finished:
“I tell the tale that I heard told.
Mithridates, he died old.”
—A.E. (Alfred Edward)
“He has more to impart than to receive from his generation. He is another such a strong and finished workman in his craft as Samuel Johnson was, and, like him, makes the literary class respectable.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)