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How can you burn an apple, blueberry, rose and pumpkin without leaving any ashes but retaining the smell of it?
My first is equality; my second is inferiority; my whole is superiority.
Five hundred begins it, five hundred ends it. Five in the middle is seen. First of all figures, the first of all letters. Take up their stations between. Join all together, and then you will bring before you the name of an eminent king.
Whoever makes it, tells it not. Whoever takes it, knows it not. Whoever knows it, wants it not
He stands beside the road. In a purple cap at tattered green cloak. Those who touch him, curse him.
The warmer I am the fresher I am.