| Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989. | | | |
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| | | NUMBER: | 1971 |
| AUTHOR: | Fanny Bowditch Dixwell Holmes (1840–1929) |
| QUOTATION: | Washington is full of famous men and the women they married when they were young. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | FANNY DIXWELL HOLMES, remark to President Theodore Roosevelt at the reception preceding a dinner at the White House in honor of her husband, Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, January 8, 1903.—Catherine Drinker Bowen, Yankee from Olympus, p. 362 (1944). |
| SUBJECTS: | Washington, D.C. | | |
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