The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Proverbs by Unknown

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keeping

see FINDING'S keepings.

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key

see a GOLDEN key can open any door.

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kick

see CORPORATIONS have neither bodies to be punished nor souls to be damned.

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kill

see it is the PACE that kills; it is not WORK that kills, but worry.

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killed

see CARE killed the cat; CURIOSITY killed the cat.

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KILLING no murder

Quot. 1657 is the title of a pamphlet asserting that the assassination of Cromwell, the Protector, would be lawful and laudable.

1657 (title) Killing noe murder.

1800 Castle Rackrent p. xliv. In Ireland, not only cowards, but the brave ‘die many times before their death’. There killing is no murder.

1831 Adventures of Younger Son II. xxix. Arabs, with whom, if precedents and time can make a thing lawful, killing is no murder.

1908 Times Literary Supplement 4 June 179 The exception is the share which he took in the conspiracy of Orsini against Napoleon III … It was probably a case to which Holyoake would have applied the doctrine of ‘killing no murder’.

1961 View from West vi. The British .. made, in England, propaganda out of the phrase—attributed to the Irish—‘killing no murder’, they were not foolish enough to take their own propaganda seriously.

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