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You seek me out when your hunger's ripe. I sit on four legs and smoke a pipe.
I cannot be other than what I am, until the man who made me dies. Power and glory will fall to me, only when he last closes his eyes.
I begin your sentences.
I am a king who's good at measuring stuff.
I am natureβs way of applauding lightning.
When is it bad luck to see a black cat?