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" all work, and no play, makes Jack a dull boy... "
The Sea Lions; Or, The Lost Sealers - Page 210
by James Fenimore Cooper - 1849
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Cobbett's Weekly Political Register, Volume 8

Great Britain - 1905 - 542 pages
...of real friendship to the people and to the throne. Never was any thing truer than the old saying, that " all " work and no play makes Jack a dull boy;" and>, accordingly, all wise legislators, and, indeed, all legislators, till of very late, have taken -care...
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Cobbett's Political Register, Volume 8

William Cobbett - Great Britain - 1805 - 544 pages
...real friendship to the people and to the throne. NeVer • was any thing truer than the old saying, that " all " work and no play makes Jack a dull boy ;" and, accordingly, all wise legislators, and, indeed, all legislators, till of very late, have taken care...
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Fireside Education ...

Samuel Griswold Goodrich - Child rearing - 1838 - 408 pages
...a duty, yet labor should have its limits. It is not only true of children, but of grown-up people, that "all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy." And is it not matter of fact that many of the good people of our country run into the error of excessive...
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Peter Parley's Annual: A Christmas and New Year's Present for Young People..

William Martin - Children's literature - 1878 - 342 pages
...health, of the mens sana in corpore sano (or, as it may be literally translated in the vernacular, that "all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy"), and he insisted that some hours should be daily robbed from the piano for the cultivation of robust exercises,...
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The Mechanic's organ, or, Journal for young men and women [afterw.] Voice of ...

384 pages
...places of the aquatic plants, nor the aquatic plants those of the heaths. KN It is a common saying, that ''all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy ;" and however useful it maybe, it is to be feared, that a book which gives only a dry routine of instruction...
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Cooper's Novels, Volume 10

James Fenimore Cooper - 1852 - 448 pages
...he fully felt the policy of granting relaxation to labour. Nor was he indisposed to believe in the care of a Divine Providence, or in its justice, though...cares and business of this world, to muse on those of the world that is to come. Though inclined to Deism, Roswell worshipped in his heart the creator...
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The Sea Lions: Or, The Lost Sealers, Volumes 1-2

James Fenimore Cooper - 1852 - 450 pages
...he fully felt the policy of granting relaxation to labour. Nor was he indisposed to believe in the care of a Divine Providence, or in its justice, though...cares and business of this world, to muse on those of the world that is to come. Though inclined to Deism, Roswell worshipped in his heart the creator...
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The Three Paths, Or, Truth, Vanity, and Profession, Volume 1

Mrs. Anderson (Caroline Dorothea), Caroline Dorothea Anderson (hon.) - 1852 - 294 pages
..." "Still, my dear mother, flowers are very sweet and tempting ; and don't you know another saying, that ' All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy ;' and after all, there is no harm in turning the eye towards the broad lands of uncle Melcombe." " Much,...
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Cooper's Works, Volume 32

James Fenimore Cooper - American literature - 1855 - 460 pages
...he fully felt the policy of granting relaxation to labour. Nor was he indisposed to believe in the care of a Divine Providence, or in its justice, though...cares and business of this world, to muse on those of the world that is to come. Though inclined to Deism, Roswell worshipped in his heart the creator...
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Sea lions

James Fenimore Cooper - 1856 - 504 pages
...fellow-creatures, he fully felt the policy of granting relaxation to labor. Nor was he indisposed to believe in the care of a Divine Providence, or in its justice, though...cares and business of this world, to muse on those of the world that is to come. Though inclined to Deism, Roswell worshipped in his heart the Creator...
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