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Conundrums

1st  Why is the letter D like a Sailor?
2nd  Why are Old Sinners like Comets?
3rd  Why are teeth like Verbs?
4th  What is Majesty divested of its externals?
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7th  Why are Algiers and Malta like light and darkness?
8th  Why is Athens like the wick of a candle?
9th  Why is Ireland like an unopened bottle?
10th When is a door no door?
11th Why is Rebellion like a Crow's nest?
12th What's that without which a coach cannot be made to move and yet is no use to it?
13th Why is a discourse from the deck of a ship an ornament?
14th In every moment comes twice and not once in a hundred years?
15th Why is a nail driven fast in a wall like a sick man?
16th Seventeen pronouns, twenty nine adjectives, a child of five years old, a bonnet, a ribbon, a little horse, a great man can all be expressed by a kind of liquid?
17th Where did Noah drive the first nail in the Ark?
18th Why is a kiss through mistake like a warlike weapon?
19th Why is [[strikeout]]a [[strikeout]]Wm. Pitt disgraced like an English coin defaced?
20th Why was the Tower when Sir Francis Burdett was in it like a woman's mouth?
21st When is a man over head and ears in debt?
22nd From five and forty, five subtract and it will open to your eyes. What you are, what you think, & act and what you always do?