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“If the light were not in your eyes, dear Mr. Brooks, you would understand better how happy your little Helen was when her teacher explained to her that the best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen nor even touched but just felt in the heart.
— Helen Keller
Author and disability rights advocate
Letter to Rev. Phillips Brooks (8 June 1891)
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