The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Proverbs (420 page)
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It is the PACE that kills
1855Wonderful Adventures of Captain Priest
XV
.
The well-known sporting maxim, that ‘It is the pace that kills’.
1901
Sir H. Parkes in China
xx.
There is an old proverb about the pace that kills, and .. Sir Harry was killing himself by work at high pressure.
1936
Death in Ecstasy
II
. xvii.
Don't overdo it …This is the pace that kills.
haste;
stress
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