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No. 167: Profit from folly rather than participate in it - Warren Buffett

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Profit from folly rather than participate in it - Warren Buffett

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Strip by: Ian Boreham

{A barrister sits next to a worried-looking Lancelot "Capability" Brown in court.}
Judge (off-panel): Lancelot Brown.
Judge: The court finds you guilty of gross negligence causing the death of a worker during the construction of Wimpole's folly.
Judge: You are sentenced to...

The author writes:

I couldn't find any actual examples of Capability Brown's work causing accidents. Most criticism of him seemed to be that his gardens looked so natural that they just didn't look much like a garden. Not sure if that went for his follies too. I like follies, and one day I aspire to having a large property with a fake ruined castle or fake neolithic stone circle on it.

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