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What, of All Things
Here's a riddle created by the philosopher Voltaire:
What, of all things in the world, is the longest and the shortest, the swiftest and the slowest, the most neglected and the most regretted, without which nothing can be done, which devours all that is little and ennobles all that is great?
What, of all things in the world, is the longest and the shortest, the swiftest and the slowest, the most neglected and the most regretted, without which nothing can be done, which devours all that is little and ennobles all that is great?
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Not sure why I knew this one, but I got it. Good job.
There's at least one variant of this on the site.
Doesn't detract from it's philisophical value though.
Doesn't detract from it's philisophical value though.
Good one!
Good Teaser, yet I thought the answer was The Wind. Time is never swift. I like this Teaser, regardless.
Time flies when you're having fun...
"most neglected"
Just another philosopher's nonsense.
Just another philosopher's nonsense.
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