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  Quotes by Riis, Jacob




Jacob August Riis (May 3, 1849 - March 26, 1914), a Danish-American muckraker journalist and slum and school reformer, was born in Ribe, Denmark..

"Some defeats are only installments to victory."

Riis, Jacob on failure    Share

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"When nothing seems to help, I go look at a stonecutter 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 that blow that did it, but all that had gone before."

Riis, Jacob on perseverance    Share

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