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Jones:
"I never get paid anyway".
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Implicature:
"I might just as well 'play' rather than 'work', then."
We are discussing one of the silliest proverbs in the English language:
Of Jack, an undescript male,
"All work and no play
makes Jack a dull boy."
It does not even scan or rhyme.
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The problem may be in 'Jack'. Perhaps he was French ("Jacques")?
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