Book of Riddles and Five Hundred Home Amusements: Containing a Choice and Curious Collection of Riddles, Charades, Enigmas, Rebuses, Anagrams, ... in Arithmetic, Fireside Games, and Natu - Hardcover

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9780266396949: Book of Riddles and Five Hundred Home Amusements: Containing a Choice and Curious Collection of Riddles, Charades, Enigmas, Rebuses, Anagrams, ... in Arithmetic, Fireside Games, and Natu

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ISBN 10: 0266396941 ISBN 13: 9780266396949

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2018

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What is the longest and yet the shortest thing in the world; the swiftest, and the most slow; the most divisible, and the most ex. Tended the least valued, and the most regretted without which nothing can be done; which devours every thing, however small, and yet gives life and spirit to all things, however great?

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