The Victorian gold rush was a period in the history of Victoria, Australia approximately between 1851 and the late 1860s. In 10 years, the Australian population nearly tripled.
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Famous quotes containing the words victorian, gold and/or rush:
“I belong to the fag-end of Victorian liberalism, and can look back to an age whose challenges were moderate in their tone, and the cloud on whose horizon was no bigger than a mans hand.”
—E.M. (Edward Morgan)
“Not the gold that fastens your sandal,
nor the gold reft
through your chiselled locks
is as gold as this last years leaf.”
—Hilda Doolittle (18861961)
“Nothing makes a man feel older than to hear a band coming up the street and not to have the impulse to rush downstairs and out on to the sidewalk.”
—Robert Benchley (18891945)