Catherine Helen Spence Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

10 Famous Quotes by Catherine Helen Spence
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“A glass of whisky in Scotland in the thirties cost less than a cup of tea.”
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“After the break up of the municipality and the loss of his income my father lost health and spirits.”
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“Although my mother had the greatest love for Sir Walter Scott, and the highest appreciation of his poems and novels, she never liked Melrose.”
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“As we grew to love South Australia, we felt that we were in an expanding society, still feeling the bond to the motherland, but eager to develop a perfect society, in the land of our adoption.”
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“But more important than all this was the fact that we took hold of the growth and development of South Australia, and identified ourselves with it.”
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“Drinking habits were very prevalent among men, and were not in any way disgraceful, unless excessive.”
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“Even before the discovery of copper South Australia had turned the corner.”
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“I count myself well educated, for the admirable woman at the head of the school which I attended from the age of four and a half till I was thirteen and a half, was a born teacher in advance of her own times.”
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“I had learned what wealth was, and a great deal about production and exchange for myself in the early history of South Australia - of the value of machinery, of roads and bridges, and of ports for transport and export.”
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“I had only two offers of marriage in my life, and I refused both.”
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