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I had a bright start but I couldn't take the pressure. I consume everything yet I don't eat anything.
You write on me and secrets I can keep. In places never seen. I spin like a top. Though stiff as a board I'm often described like a mop.
What can you catch but not throw?
I am born in fear raised in truth and I come to my own in deed. When comes a time that I'm called forth I come to serve the cause of need.
I have more shoes than anybody, but less feet than everyone. I am met in the morning, but departed in the night. I may shake as if I'm angry, but I won't bite. What am I?
It flows out of the soil, It burns you if it boils, And holds us in its coils, More valuable than gold, As black as it is old.