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The more I live, the more I think that humor is the saving sense.

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Some defeats are only installments to victory.

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The slum is the measure of civilization.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Biography

Nationality: Danish

Type: Journalist

Born: May 3rd, 1849

Died: March 26th, 1914

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