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Reid was neither federal nor anti-federal but either at need and as far as possible both at once. It is difficult indeed to describe so extraordinary a man without appearing to caricature him ...

— Alfred Deakin The Federal Story (1944)

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He sought rest only in perpetual physical motion.

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He possessed for a time practically despotic authority "On the one condition", as he shrewdly said, "that I did not exercise it."

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His nervous instability was painful, his poses perpetual and his vanity colossal.

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Knowledge was his forte and omniscience his foible.

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Sir Thomas was a man of business, stout, florid, choleric, curt and Cromwellian.

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