Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall;
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall;
All the great horses, and all the great men
Couldn't put Humpty together again.
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There are many nursery-rhyme riddles and, thanks to Lewis Carroll's Alice, this is one of the most famous. Humpty even has his own Wikipedia article. Sometimes it is "the king's horses and the king's men," but I liked "great" (which is the version found in the source I used). Eggs are one of the most famous subjects for riddles because of their many strange qualities, and you can mix-and-match those qualities to create your own riddles; in this riddle, it is all about the fact that an egg absolutely cannot be repaired once it is broken... and it is so easy to break! Plus you have to break an egg to use it (but that's another riddle!).
Egg.
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