This thing all things devours: Birds, beasts, trees, flowers; Gnaws iron, bites steel; Grinds hard stones to meal; Slays king, ruins town, And beats high mountains down.

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Almost everyone needs it, asks for it, gives it. But almost nobody takes it.

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