Famous Quotes | As one who strives a hill to...

As one who strives a hill to climb,
Who never climbed before:
Who finds it in a little time,
Grow every moment less sublime,
And votes the thing a bore: - Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson]
Attribution: Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] (1832–1898), British author, mathematician, clergyman. repr. In The Works of Lewis Carroll, Longmeadow Press (1982). The narrator Tibbets, Phantasmagoria, Canto VI, originally published in Phantasmagoria and other Poems, Macmillan (1869).

Categories: Author, Boredom, Clergyman, Mathematician

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