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I have a name written on me, but it isnβt my name. Men plant me, but I never grow. They look at me and see their future, rotting in my bloom.
I have no bed to sleep and no palace to live. I don't have a single coin but I am known as king. What am I?
With a halo of water and a tongue of wood, stone as skin long I stood. What am I?
Brown I am and much admired. Many horses have I tried. Tire a horse and worry a man, tell me this riddle if you can. What am I?
I am essential to life on earth! I am split into thirds. Two thirds are the same. One of the thirds is 8. The other two are 1 each.
Almost everyone needs it, asks for it, gives it. But almost nobody takes it.