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What comes down but never back goes up?
I shave several times a day, yet I still have a beard. Who am I?
What can speak without a tongue and listen without ears?
Whipping one of these out in the wrong setting is said to be terrible luck.
You walk into a room with a match, a kerosene lamp and a fireplace. Which do you light first?
A harvest sown and reaped on the same day In an unplowed field, Which increases without growing, Remains whole though it is eaten Within and without, Is useless and yet The staple of nations.