Sir Henry Parkes

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    There are a sort of men whose visages
    Do cream and mantle like a standing pond,
    And do a willful stillness entertain,
    With purpose to be dressed in an opinion
    Of wisdom, gravity, profound conceit,
    As who should say, “I am Sir Oracle,
    And when I ope my lips let no dog bark!”
    William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    The child who has been taught to make an accurate elevation, plan, and section of a pint pot has had an admirable training in accuracy of eye and hand.
    —Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–95)

    Our business being to colonize the country, there was only one way to do it—by spreading over it all the associations and connections of family life.
    —Henry Parkes (1815–1896)