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.
-- Jacob August Riis
   
Jacob August Riis   Name:
Jacob August Riis
Type:
Journalist
Nationality:
Danish
Birth:
May 3, 1849
Death:
March 26, 1914
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