HardAbstract
"I feed no one yet I have sustained millions through famine. I cure nothing yet the sick hold onto me. I cost nothing yet I am priceless. What am I?"
Answer
Hope
Explanation
Hope provides no food or medicine yet it has kept people alive through the worst conditions imaginable. It is freely available to anyone yet its value to the human spirit is immeasurable.
This is a hard riddle in the Abstract category — Riddles about ideas, emotions, and intangible things.
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