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The hands of those I meet are dumbly eloquent to me. The touch of some hands is an impertinence. I have met people so empty of joy, that when I clasped their frosty finger-tips, it seemed as if I were shaking hands with a northeast storm.

Source: The Story of My Life, pt. 1, ch. 23 (1903).
-- Helen Keller, (Jun 27 1880-1968), US author, lecturer; She learned to speak and write despite being blind and deaf; wrote The Story of My Life, 1903.

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