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Helen Keller Quotes
If we don’t make the most of ourselves, how can we expect to be made much of by others?
Source:
Address to blinded WWI soldiers, delivered at Evergreen Hospital, Baltimore, MD (February 25, 1919). Published in Evergreen Review (April 1920)
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Name:
Helen Keller
Profession:
Writer, Activist
Born:
June 27, 1880 - June 1, 1968
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