The Same Sort Of Thing Happened In My Dispute With The National Trust Book: Follies: A National Trust Guide, Which Implied That The Only Pleasure You Can Get From Folly Architecture Is By Calling The Architect Mad, And By Laughing At The Architecture. - SearchQuotes

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The same sort of thing happened in my dispute with the National Trust book: Follies: A National Trust Guide, which implied that the only pleasure you can get from Folly architecture is by calling the architect mad, and by laughing at the architecture.

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