Quote#Wisdom
I would not live alway: I ask not to stay
Quote byWilliam Augustus Muhlenberg · 1796–1877
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: I would not live alway (published 1826), reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)..
English (original)
I would not live alway: I ask not to stay Where storm after storm rises dark o’er the way.
— William Augustus Muhlenberg
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