WHO OR WHAT AM I?
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What goes round the house and in the house but never touches the house? What am I?
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The sun.
I am taken from a mine, and shut up in a wooden case, from which I am never released, and yet I am used by almost everybody. What am I?
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Pencil lead.
You can keep me even after giving me to someone else? What am I.
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Your word.
I walk all day on my head. What am I?
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A nail in a horseshoe .
I become wet whilst drying. What am I.
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A towel.
I come once in a minute, twice in a moment, but never in a thousand years? What am I?
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The letter M.
I am round as a dishpan, deep as a tub, and still the oceans couldn't fill me up. What am I.
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A sieve.
There were five men going to church and it started to rain. The four that ran got wet and the one that stood still stayed dry. What am I?
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Body in coffin, and bearers.
The more you take, the more you leave me behind. What am I?
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Footsteps.
He who has me doesn't tell it. He who takes me doesn't know it. He who knows me doesn't want it. Who am I?
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Counterfeit money.
Brothers and sisters have I none but that man's father is my father's son. Who am I?
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My son.
I spend the day at the window, go to the table for meals and hide at night? Who am I?
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A fly.
I bind it and it walks. I loose it and it stops. What am I?
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A sandal.
I go round and round the wood but never into the wood. What am I?
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The bark of a tree.
I went to the city, I stopped there, I never went there, and I came back again. What am I?
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A watch.
I have a little house in which I live all alone. It has no doors or windows, and if I want to go out I must break through the wall. Who am I?
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A chicken in an egg.
Scarcely was the father in this world when the son could be found sitting on the roof.
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Fire, smoke.
There are four brothers in this world that were all born together. The first runs and never wearies. The second eats and is never full. The third drinks and is always thirsty. The fourth sings a song that is never good. Who are we?
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Water, fire, earth, wind.
A cloud was my mother, the wind is my father, my son is the cool stream, and my daughter is the fruit of the land. A rainbow is my bed, the earth my final resting place, and I'm the torment of man. Who am I?
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Rain.
Poke your fingers in my eyes and I will open wide my jaws. Linen cloth, quills, or paper, my greedy lust devours them all. What am I?
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Shears (or scissors).
What is that which goes with a carriage, comes with a carriage, is of no use to a carriage, and yet the carriage cannot go without it?
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Noise.
the (ART)
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article
I stand on one leg with my heart in my head. What am I?
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A cabbage.
I have been around for millions of years, but am never more than a month old. Who am I?
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The moon.
A white dove flew down by the castle. Along came a king and picked it up handless, ate it up toothless, and carried it away wingless. What am I?
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Snow melted by the sun.
As I went across the bridge, I met a man with a load of wood which was neither straight nor crooked. What kind of wood was it?
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Sawdust.
What belongs to you but others use it more than you do?
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Your name.
What goes up the chimney down, but can't go down the chimney up?
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An umbrella.
What is is that you will break even when you name it?
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Silence.
What fastens two people yet touches only one?
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A wedding ring.
What is it the more you take away the larger it becomes?
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A hole.
I am the beginning of sorrow, and the end of sickness. You cannot express happiness without me, yet I am in the midst of crosses. I am always in risk, yet never in danger. You may find me in the sun, but I am never out of darkness. Who am I?
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The letter S.
What is put on a table, cut, but never eaten?
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A pack of cards.
Who are the two brothers who live on opposite sides of the road yet never see each other?
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Eyes.
When one does not know what it is, then it is something; but when one knows what it is, then it is nothing. What am I?
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A riddle.