I wonder, among all the tangles of this mortal coil, which one contains tighter knots to undo, & consequently suggests more tugging, & pain, & diversified elements of misery, than the marriage tie.
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Letter to John Hugh Smith (12 February 1909), published in The Letters of Edith Wharton (1988)Edith Wharton
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