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Everyone in the world needs me. They generously give me but never take me. What am I?
I am mother and father, but never give birth or nurse. I'm rarely still, but I never wander. What am I?
Six letters do my name compound; among the aged oft I'm found; The shepherd also by the brook hears me when Leaning on his crook; but in the middle me divide and take the half on either side each backward read a liquor tell ev'ry gay toper knows it well.
Take it and you will lose or gain more than the others.
I have a head, tail, but no arms and legs. What am I?
When is it bad luck to see a black cat?