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I crawl on the earth. And rise on a pillar.
I am mother and father, but never birth or nurse. I'm rarely still, but I never wander.
I walked and walked and at last I got it. I didn't want it. So I stopped and looked for it. When I found it, I threw it away.
What does man love more than life, fear more than death or mortal strife. What the poor have, the rich require, and what contented men desire. What the miser spends, and the spendthrift saves. And all men carry to their graves.
A precious fluid, thicker than water.
Which bank is not used for storing money?