Jacob Riis

Journalist

1849-05-03

Quotes by Jacob Riis

• I'd look at one of my stonecutters hammering away at the rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet, at the hundred and first blow it would split in two, and I knew it was not that blow that did it, but all that had gone before.

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• Look at a stone cutter 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 the last blow that did it, but all that had gone before.

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• The slum is the measure of civilization.

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• Men have a trick of coming up to what is expected of them, good or bad.

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