I lived upon my own substance and died when I had devoured myself. A candle.
I have hands, but no fingers; no bed, but a tick. A clock.
You can hang me on the wall, but if you take me down, you cannot hang me up again. Wall paper.
In my first my second sat, my third and fourth I ate. In-sat-i-ate.
May my first never be lost in my second,
To prevent me from enjoying my whole.
Friendship.
My first I do, and my second—when I say you are my whole—I do not. Love-lie (Lovely).
My first is a prop, my second also is a prop, and my whole is a prop as well. Footstool.
Wipe my face, and I'm everybody; scratch my back, and I'm nobody. A mirror.
By well employing my second you will never regret my first, and you will the more thoroughly enjoy my whole. Past-time.