[Did he buy his farm in 2008 to avoid paying death duties?] That's the critical thing. So rather than just have money in the bank, and get a statement with numbers written on it that gives no one any pleasure at all, you could derive a great deal of pleasure and pass it on to your children.

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This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "[Did he buy his farm in 2008 to avoid paying death duties?] That's the critical thing. So rather than just have money in the bank, and get a statement with numbers written on it that gives no one any pleasure at all, you could derive a great deal of pleasure and pass it on to your children." in the context of "Interviewed by Deborah Ross, as cited in "Jeremy Clarkson’s girlfriend Lisa Hogan on life at their farm", The Times (13 November 2021)" to mean that wisdom is timeless.