All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy

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A person who never takes time off from work becomes boring and bored.

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How to use All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy in a sentence

As an example of good science-and-society policymaking, the history of fluoride may be more of a cautionary tale.
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If anything the work the two cops and the maintenance guy were doing deserves more respect and probably helped a lot more people.
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Why, some might be asking, am I being so harsh on their work so soon after they died?
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But along with the cartoon funk is an all-too-real story of police brutality embodied by a horde of evil Pigs.
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In the 90s, it kept gay men out of leadership roles in the Boy Scouts of America.
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A little boy of four was moved to passionate grief at the sight of a dead dog taken from a pond.
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I assure you, no matter how beautifully we play any piece, the minute Liszt plays it, you would scarcely recognize it!
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You see, I'd always thought of him as the boy whom Great-aunt Lucia described having seen.
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Poor Squinty ran and tried to hide under the straw, for he knew the boy was talking about him.
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But I hope at least to play to him a few times, and what is more important, to hear him play repeatedly.
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all work and no play (makes Jack a dull boy)

Hard work without time for recreation is not good for one's health, as in If Harry keeps up that grueling schedule, he's headed for a breakdown—all work and no play isn't healthy. A proverb included in James Howell's collection of 1659, this phrase remains so familiar that it is often shortened, as in the example.