"Washington is a city where dwell many of the first men of the land, and the women they married when they were young."
— Washington, D.C.

January 1, 1970

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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. Reported in Catherine Drinker Bowen, Yankee from Olympus, p. 362 (1944). Originally cited in Francis Biddle, "Mr. Justice Holmes", p. 195 (1942).