Riddle: two are better than three (two legs better than man with staff in old age)

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Riddle: two are better than three (two legs better than man with staff in old age).

Tests. · Tests of cleverness. · Riddles. · Metaphorical riddles. · view the constellation · filed as H761.1

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Jewish*Neuman.

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Filed under Riddle of the Sphinx: what is it that goes on four legs in the morning, on two at midday, and on three in the evening. (Man, who crawls as a child, walks in middle life, and walks with a stick in old age.)

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