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One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.

— Helen Keller

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." in the context of "Address to the American Association to Promote the Teaching of Speech to the Deaf at Mt. Airy, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (8 July 1896), quoted in supplement to The Story of My Life" to mean that wisdom is timeless.

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Helen Keller

About Helen Keller

Helen Adams Keller (June 27, 1880 – June 1, 1968) was an American writer and social activist; an illness (possibly scarlet fever or meningitis) at the age of 19 months left her deaf and blind.