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What is the answer to this riddle?

 
 
Reply Thu 8 Jan, 2009 11:36 pm
I need help with this riddle. I am your constant companion. I am your greatest helper or burden. I will push you onward or drag you down to failure. I am completely at your command. Half the things you do you might just as well turn over to me and I will be able to do them quickly and correctly. I am easily managed-- you must merely be firm with me. Show me exactly how you want something done and after a few lessons I will do it autmatically. I am the servant of all great men; and alas, of all failures, as well as Those who are great, I have made great. Those who are failures, I have mde failures. I am not a machine, though I work with all the precision of a machine plus the intelligence of a man. You may run me for profit or run me for ruin-- it makes no difference to me. Take me, train me, be firm with me, and I will place the world at your feet. Be easy with me and I will destroy you. Who am I?
 
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Reply Fri 9 Jan, 2009 12:56 am
Habit

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Reply Fri 9 Jan, 2009 06:04 am
It has to be something along the lines of ambition,
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Reply Fri 9 Jan, 2009 09:19 pm
I would have to say your brain. Sounds right to me.
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Reply Fri 9 Jan, 2009 09:26 pm
Well done Barbie. I never thought I'd ever say that
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Reply Fri 9 Jan, 2009 09:28 pm
Thanks! It seemed like a good answer. =)
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Reply Sat 10 Jan, 2009 01:00 pm
yes it does except the poem (riddle) came from a book
http://books.google.com/books?id=6Kv89ockS2AC&pg=PA51&lpg=PA51&dq=poem+I+am+the+servant+of+all+great+men&source=web&ots=fTm-LiWUvi&sig=5JxQklI1zCpMX7Wliqd1Zf8t4aI&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=7&ct=result
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Reply Sat 10 Jan, 2009 03:10 pm
damn it. oh well, I guess I was wrong =(
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