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Why does a miller wear a white hat?

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With potent, flowery words speak I, Of something common, vulgar, dry; I weave webs of pedantic prose, In effort to befuddle those, Who think I while time away, In lofty things, above all-day The common kind that lingers where Monadic beings live and fare; Practical I may not be, But life, it seems, is full of me! What am I?

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Why is a man with wooden legs like one who has an even bargain?

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What is that which the dead and living do at the same time?

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My first is a part of the day, My last a conductor of light, My whole to take measure of time, Is useful by day and by night. What am I?

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Why is a gooseberry pie like counterfeit money?

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