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What surrounds the world, yet dwells within a thimble?
I cannot be other than what I am, until the man who made me dies. Power and glory will fall to me finally. Only when he last closes his eyes.
A precious fluid, thicker than water.
What goes around the world and stays in a corner?
Almost everyone needs it, asks for it, gives it. But almost nobody takes it.
This food is a tortilla filled with cheese and sometimes chicken before being heated or cooked.