“We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.”

About Helen Keller

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Helen Adams Keller was an American author, disability rights advocate, political activist, and lecturer. Born in Tuscumbia, Alabama, she lost her sight and hearing after a bout of illness at the age of nineteen months....

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