“If the light were not in your eyes, dear Mr. Brooks, you wou…”

“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

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Title: Wikiquote: Helen Keller
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Context

Letter to Rev. Phillips Brooks (8 June 1891)

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Keller, Helen. (n.d.). Wikiquote: Helen Keller. Wikiquote. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Helen_Keller

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