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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About Jacob A. Riis
Jacob A. Riis.
Themes
- Time — Reflections on the passage of time and how we spend it