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1. My life can be measured in hours; I serve by being devoured. Thin, I am quick; fat, I am slow. Wind is my foe. What am I?

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2. Lighter than what I'm made of, More of me is hidden than is seen. What am I?

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3. To unravel me You need a key. No key that was made by locksmith's hand, But a key that only I will understand. What am I?

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4. I give you a group of three. One is sitting down and will never get up. The second eats as much as is given to him, yet is always hungry. The third goes away and never returns. What are they?

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5. Whoever makes it, tells it not. Whoever takes it, knows it not. Whoever knows it, wants it not. What is it?

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6. There is not wind enough to twirl That one red leaf, nearest of its clan, Which dances as often as dance it can.

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7. What does man love more than life? Fear more than death or mortal strife? What do the poor have, what the rich require, And what contented men desire? What does the miser spend, the spendthrift save, And all men carry to their graves? 

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8. Sir, I bear a rhyme excelling In mystic force and magic spelling Celestial sprites elucidate All my own striving can't relate.

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9. What work is it that the faster you work, the longer it is before you're done, and the slower you work, the sooner you're finished?

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10. When I am filled, I can point the way; When I am empty, Nothing moves me. I have two skins, One without and one within. What am I?

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11. As a whole, I am both safe and secure. Behead me, and I become a place of meeting. Behead me again, and I am the partner of ready. Restore me, and I become the domain of beasts. What am I?

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12. I fly, yet I have no wings. I cry, yet I have no eyes. Darkness follows me; lower light I never see.

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13. What walks on four legs in the morning, two at mid-day, and three in the evening?

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14. What is it that, after you take away the whole, some still remains?

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15.  I have hands that wave at you, Though I never say goodbye. It's cool for you to be with me, Especially when I say, "HI." What am I?

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16. You can have me but cannot hold me; Gain me and quickly lose me. If treated with care I can be great, And if betrayed I will break. What am I?

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17.  My tines be long, My tines be short My tines end ere My first report. What am I?

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18. My thunder comes before the lightning; My lightning comes before the clouds; My rain dries all the land it touches. What am I?

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