There is one word in the English language which is universally considered a preventive of harm; change a certain letter in it, and you make it an act of cruelty. What are the words?

Answer: Prescription—proscription.

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Prescription—proscription.

Why is a small horse like a young musk-melon?

Answer: Because it makes a man go.

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Because it makes a man go.

What can pass through water without getting wet? Who am I?

Answer: Light

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Causes bad breath and frightens blood-suckers

Answer: Garlic

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I weaken all men for hours each day. I show you strange visions while you are away. I take you by night, by day take you back, None suffer to have me, but do from my lack. What am I?

Answer: Sleep

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Two birds, trying to balance in one twig.

Answer: earrings

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