Helen Keller, Optimism (1903).
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Only by contact with evil could I have learned to feel by contrast the beauty of truth and love and goodness.

— Helen Keller on Good and evil

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "Only by contact with evil could I have learned to feel by contrast the beauty of truth and love and goodness." in the context of "Helen Keller, Optimism (1903)." 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.