“Can build castles in the air.”
Robert Burton book The Anatomy of Melancholy
Section 2, member 1, subsection 3.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part I
“If you are going to build something in the air it is always better to build castles than houses of cards.”
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Aphorisms (1765-1799), Notebook F (1776-1779)
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