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The world forgets easily, too easily, what it does not like to remember. -- Jacob A. Riis
In self-defence, you know, all life eventually accommodates itself to its environment, and human life is no exception. -- Jacob A. Riis
How shall the love of God be understood by those who have been nurtured in sight only of the greed of man? -- Jacob A. Riis
When nothing seems to help, I go and 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 last
blow that did it, but all that had gone before. -- Jacob A. Riis
He may have been a trifle wild. -- Jacob A. Riis
Oh, God! That bread should be so dear, And flesh and blood so cheap! -- Jacob A. Riis