Catherine Helen Spence Quotes

I look back to a happy childhood. - Catherine Helen Spence

I had seen Adelaide the dearest and the cheapest place to live in. - Catherine Helen Spence

I had only two offers of marriage in my life, and I refused both. - Catherine Helen Spence

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. - Catherine Helen Spence

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. - Catherine Helen Spence

Even before the discovery of copper South Australia had turned the corner. - Catherine Helen Spence

Drinking habits were very prevalent among men, and were not in any way disgraceful, unless excessive. - Catherine Helen Spence

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. - Catherine Helen Spence

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