Almost everybody in the neighborhood had troubles, frankly localized a…

Edith Wharton
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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 ✨ Ethan Frome ch. 7 (1911)
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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 ✨ Ethan Frome ch. 7 (1911)

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