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Call me a dreamer, but one day, my name will become an adjective for everything cynical and untrustworthy in human nature.
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This is a quote farcically attributed to Machiavelli in America: The Book by Jon Stewart and other people associated with The Daily Show on Comedy Central; it is not a serious attribution.

 

Niccolo Machiavelli

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You used to call me your dreamer,
And now I'm living out my dreams;
Oh, how I wish you could see,
Everything that's happening for me.

 

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