People struggled on for years with 'troubles,' but they almost always succumbed to 'complications.
Edith WhartonTo your generation, I must represent the literary equivalent of tufted furniture and gas chandeliers.
Edith WhartonThere was once a little girl who was so very intelligent that her parents feared that she would die. But an aged aunt, who had crossed the Atlantic in a sailing-vessel, said, 'My dears, let her marry the first man she falls in love with, and she will make such a fool of herself that it will probably save her life.
Edith Wharton