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All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy : ウィキペディア英語版 | All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy
''All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy'' is a proverb. It means that without time off from work, a person becomes both bored and boring. ==History== Though the spirit of the proverb had been expressed previously, the modern saying appeared first in James Howell's ''Proverbs in English, Italian, French and Spanish'' (1659), and was included in later collections of proverbs. It also appears in Howell's ''Paroimiographia'' (1659), p. 12. Some writers have added a second part to the proverb, as in ''Harry and Lucy Concluded'' (1825) by the Irish novelist Maria Edgeworth:
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