The rich ate and drank ...

The rich ate and drank freely, accepting gout and apoplexy as things that ran mysteriously in respectable families.
The rich ate and drank freely, accepting gout and apoplexy as things that ran mysteriously in respectable families.

Quotes from the same author

Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?
It is never too late to be what you might have been.
Men and women are but children of a larger growth.
Life began with waking up and loving my mother's face.