Riddle: why are there more days than nights? (The moon turns some nights into days.) — Mythoi

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Riddle: why are there more days than nights? (The moon turns some nights into days.)

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general Chauvin V 38 No. 365.

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Filed under Riddles of explanation.

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Riddle: why is the hair gray before the beard? (It is twenty years older.) Riddle: why are there more living than dead? (There are some of the dead of whom we still speak.) Riddle: why are there more women than men? (Some women make women [i.e., weaklings] of their husbands.)

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