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I never was but always will be. No one ever saw me but everyone knows I exist. I give people the motivation to better themselves every day. What am I?
I am taken from a mine and shut in a wooden case from which I am never released. Yet I am used by almost everybody. What am I?
What can be heard in court or used to carry briefs?
People buy me to eat but never eat me. What am I?
I go around a yard but does not move.
Runs over fields and woods all day. Under the bed at night sits not alone, With long tongue hanging out, Resting at your feet until we go for a walk