“Stay is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary.”

—  Louisa May Alcott

Amos Bronson Alcott, her father, in Concord Days (1872), p. 124 : "Stay is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary. But if one does not stay while staying, better let him go where he is gone the while."
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American novelist 1832–1888

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