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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. Jacob Riis blowcrackcutter share on social
The more I live, the more I think that humor is the saving sense. Jacob Riis humorlivesave Change image and share on social
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. Jacob Riis blowcrackhammer share on social
We know: of course, with regard to the market and similar social structures, a great many facts which we cannot measure and on which indeed we have only some very imprecise and general information. Friedrich August von Hayek factgeneralgreat Change image and share on social
It has been well said that tea is suggestive of a thousand wants, from which spring the decencies and luxuries of civilization. Agnes Repplier civilizationdecencyluxury Change image and share on social
A man of letters never objects to a slum. He sharpens his pen there. George A. Moore lettermanobject Change image and share on social
