No doubt the reason is that character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved.
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- Helen Keller
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- Helen Keller's Journal: 1936-1937 (1938), p. 60
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