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Quotation from Theodore Roosevelt: An Autobiography by Theodore Roosevelt
“I had no idea how beautiful the world was until I got those spectacles.”
Theodore Roosevelt: An Autobiography, Chapter I, Boyhood and Youth (Project Gutenberg #3335 (1920 Scribner edition of the 1913 text))
At about thirteen he discovers he is nearsighted, and glasses open an entirely new world to him.
Citation: "I had no idea how beautiful the world was until I got those spectacles." — Theodore Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt: An Autobiography, Chapter I, Boyhood and Youth (Project Gutenberg #3335 (1920 Scribner edition of the 1913 text)). (id theodore-roosevelt-an-autobiography-q3)
Portrait: Theodore Roosevelt by the Pach Bros, Pach Brothers; restored by Adam Cuerden, Public domain.
