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Fanny Dixwell Holmes

“It is not hard to mistake worldliness for wisdom.”
- Fanny Dixwell Holmes,
- in Catherine Drinker Bowen, Yankee from Olympus (1944)
“Washington is full of famous men and the women they married when they were young.”
- Fanny Dixwell Holmes,
- in Catherine Drinker Bowen, Yankee from Olympus (1944)

Fanny Dixwell Holmes, U.S. public figure

(1840 - 1929)

Full name: Fanny Bowditch Dixwell Holmes.