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“Many persons have a wrong of idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
— Helen Keller
Author and disability rights advocate
Helen Keller's Journal: 1936-1937 (1938), p. 57
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