My return to London introduced me to a wider range of society.
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Drinking habits were very prevalent among men, and were not in any way disgraceful, unless excessive.Catherine Helen Spence
Probably my mother's life was prolonged beyond that of a long-lived family by her coming to Australia in middle life; and if I ever had any tendency to consumption, the climate must have helped me.
Catherine Helen Spence
Our South Australian farmers left their holdings in the hands of their wives and children too young to take with them, but almost all of them returned to grow grain and produce to send to Victoria.
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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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I think my brother John profited less by the great advance of South Australia than he deserved for sticking to the Bank of South Australia.
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I had seen Adelaide the dearest and the cheapest place to live in.
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