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Martha Washington: The greater part...

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The greater part of our happiness or our misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances.

Source: Letter to Mrs. Warren 26 Dec 1789; in Lives of Celebrated Women, by Samuel Griswold Goodrich,1844.
-- Martha Washington, (Jun 21 1732-1802), US first lady; She was America's first First Lady; also the first U.S. woman to have her likeness appear on a U.S. stamp.


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