“Can build castles in the air.”
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Section 2, member 1, subsection 3.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part I
“Building castles in the air, 36 and making yourself a laughing-stock.”
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part II (1615), Book III, Ch. 31.
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