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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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jacob-august-riis/look-at-a-stone-cutter-hammering-away-at-his-rock-perhaps-a-hundred/)

[Jacob August Riis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jacob-august-riis/)

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## More by Jacob August Riis

> [ I do not want \[photography\] explained to me in terms of... formulas, learned, but so hopelessly unsatisfying. I do not want my butterfly stuck… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jacob-august-riis/i-do-not-want-photography-explained-to-me-in-terms-of-formulas/)

[Jacob August Riis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jacob-august-riis/)

> [Long ago it was said that 'one half of the world does not know how the other half lives.' That was true then. It…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jacob-august-riis/long-ago-it-was-said-that-one-half-of-the-world-does-not-know-how-the/)

[Jacob August Riis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jacob-august-riis/)

> [Look at a stone cutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jacob-august-riis/look-at-a-stone-cutter-hammering-away-at-his-rock-perhaps-a-hundred/)

[Jacob August Riis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jacob-august-riis/)

> [The more I live, the more I think that humor is the saving sense.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jacob-august-riis/the-more-i-live-the-more-i-think-that-humor-is-the-saving-sense/)

[Jacob August Riis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jacob-august-riis/)

> [Men have a trick of coming up to what is expected of them, good or bad.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jacob-august-riis/men-have-a-trick-of-coming-up-to-what-is-expected-of-them-good-or-bad/)

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