Hahaha!? I'd say that depends on which side of the argument you were on.? I think it may also date from before that in slightly different form as "care killed the cat".? Shakespeare is supposed to have used a version of it.? I will bow to your emphatic statement on what improvement the second line makes, (or doesn't). It always used to irritate the dickens out of me when my mother threw it at me as a youngster!
