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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jamiezue" data-source="post: 18064726" data-attributes="member: 115905">Hey I found this on wikipedia. I will paste the important stuff here so you don't want to refer the page.The original form of this proverb, now little used, was "Care killed the  cat". In this instance, "care" was defined as "worry" or "sorrow."The origin of the modern variation is unknown. The earliest known  printed reference to the actual phrase "Curiosity killed the cat" is in  James Allan Mair's 1873 compendium A handbook of proverbs: English, Scottish, Irish, American, Shakesperean, and scriptural; and family mottoes, where it is listed as an Irish proverb on page 34. In the 1902 edition of Proverbs: Maxims and Phrases, by John Hendricks Bechtel, the phrase "Curiosity killed the cat" is the lone entry under the topic "Curiosity" on page 100. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O._Henry" target="_blank">O. Henry</a>'s  1909 short story "Schools and Schools" includes a mention that suggests  knowledge of the proverb had become widespread by that time:   “ Curiosity  can do more things than kill a cat; and if emotions, well recognized as  feminine, are inimical to feline life, then jealousy would soon leave  the whole world catless. ”   The actual phrase appeared as the headline to a story in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Washington_Post" target="_blank">The Washington Post</a> on 4 March 1916 (page 6):   “ CURIOSITY KILLED THE CAT.Four Departments of New York City Government Summoned to Rescue Feline.From the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_World" target="_blank">New York World</a>.Curiosity, as you may recall—On the fifth floor of the apartment house at 203 West 130th street  lives Miss Mable Godfrey. When she came to the house about seven months  ago she brought Blackie, a cat of several years' experience of life.The cat seldom left the apartment. He was a hearth cat, not a fence  cat, and did not dearly love to sing. In other respects he was normal  and hence curious.Last Tuesday afternoon when Miss Godfrey was out Blackie skipped into  the grate fireplace in a rear room. He had done this many times before.  But he had not climbed up the flue to the chimney. This he did Tuesday.  Blackie there remained, perched on the top of the screen separating the  apartment flue from the main chimney, crying for assistance. Miss  Godfrey, returning, tried to induce her pet to come down. If you are  experienced in felinity, you know that Blackie didn't come down.On Wednesday the cat, curiosity unsatisfied, tried to climb  higher—and fell to the first floor. His cries could still be heard by  Miss Godfrey; who, to effect Blackie's rescue, communicated with the  following departments:1. Police department.2. Fire department.3. Health department.4. Building department.5. Washington Heights court.Among them they lowered a rope to Blackie. But it availed neither the cat nor them anything.Thursday morning, just before noon, a plumber opened the rear wall  back of the chimney. Blackie was taken out. His fall had injured his  back. Ten minutes later Blackie died.  ”</blockquote>

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