General Riddles

I have a tongue but I can't talk. I have no legs or wings but I can move from one place to another. Who am I?

There are three men in a boat with four cigarettes but no matches. How do they manage to smoke?
They throw one cigarette overboard and made the boat a cigarette lighter.

I cannot speak but I tell everything. I am not a tree but I have leaves. I have hinges but I am neither a door nor a window. Who am I?

I can be long, or I can be short. I can be grown, and I can be bought. I can be painted, or left bare. I can be round, or I can be square. What am I?
Fingernails.

What kind of tree can you carry in your hand?

There are a few trees in a garden. On one of them, a pear tree, there are pears (quite logical). But after a strong wind blew, there were neither pears on the tree nor on the ground. How come?
At first, there were 2 pears on the tree. After the wind blew, one pear fell on the ground. So there where no pears on the tree and there were no pears on the ground.

I am a part of your body. You can hold me in your left hand but not in your right hand. Who am I?
Right hand.

Feed me and I live, yet give me a drink and I die.

First, you kill me with a knife and then you chop me in anger. Then you cry beside me. Who am I?

I am deaf, dumb and blind. But I am very shiny and always speak the truth. Who am I?

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