Almost everybody in the neighborhood had ''troubles,'' frankly localized and specified but only the chosen had ''complications.'' To have them was in itself a distinction, though it was also, in most cases, a death warrant. People struggled on for years wit. (Edith Wharton)

Almost everybody in the neighborhood had ''troubles,'' frankly localized and specified but only the chosen had ''complications.'' To have them was in itself a distinction, though it was also, in most cases, a death warrant. People struggled on for years wit.

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