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by hojjat12000 1746 days ago
Whenever I see something like this, I wish people would add a reference. I tried to find the "original" quote. But wikipedia says there is no instance of it before 21st century. So, "Jack of all trades" was the original -> compliment. "master of none" got added later -> made it not a compliment. "but better than master of one" got added more recently, to make to a compliment again. Funny enough, this comment on a medium post is also one of the references in the wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_of_all_trades,_master_of_...