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Letter "J" » Jacob Riis Quotes
«When nothing seems to help, I go look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not that blow that did it, but all that had gone before.»
Author: Jacob Riis
(Photographer, Reporter)
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