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If you build castles in the air your work need not be lost that is where they should be now put the foundations under them?
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That quote was by Henry David Thoreau: "If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them." It is from Chapter 8 of his book Walden (1854), an autobiographical writing.
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