No deaf child who has earnestly tried to speak the words which he has never heard—to come out of the prison of silence, where no tone of love, no song of bird, no strain of music ever pierces the stillness—can forget the thrill of surprise, the joy of discovery which came over him when he uttered his first word.
 Helen Keller, The Story of My Life (1903). copy citation

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Author Helen Keller
Source The Story of My Life
Topic discovery prison
Date 1903
Language English
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