Quotation by Julia Dent Grant

...I, his wife, rested and was warmed in the sunlight of his loyal love, and glorious fame, and now, even though his beautiful life has gone out, it is as when some far off planet disappears from the heavens, the light of his great fame still falls upon and warms me.
Julia Dent Grant (1825–1902), First Lady of the United States (1869-1877), wife of Ulysses S. Grant. What America Owes to Women, ch. 7 (1893).

On surviving her husband, who was a General and the 18th President of the United States.
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