Quote#Sadness
Hang sorrow! care will kill a cat
Quote byGeorge Wither · 1588–1667
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Poem on Christmas; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). Compare: "Hang sorrow! care ’ll kill a cat", Ben Jonson, Every Man in his Humour, Act i. Sc. 3..
English (original)
Hang sorrow! care will kill a cat, And therefore let ’s be merry.
— George Wither
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