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I look back to a happy childhood.
Catherine Helen Spence / Author
Childhood
Happy Childhood
Looks
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My pamphlet did not set the Torrens on fire.
Catherine Helen Spence / Author
Fire
Pamphlet
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There is nothing so costly to the state as a ruined life
Catherine Helen Spence / Author
Wisdom
Australia
States
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My return to London introduced me to a wider range of society.
Catherine Helen Spence / Author
London
Range
Return
Introduced
Wider
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I had only two offers of marriage in my life, and I refused both.
Catherine Helen Spence / Author
Marriage
Offers
Two
Life Marriage My Life
Refused
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I had seen Adelaide the dearest and the cheapest place to live in.
Catherine Helen Spence / Author
Adelaide
Places To Live
Cheapest
Dearest
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My brothers went to the parish school, one of the best in the county.
Catherine Helen Spence / Author
Brother
County
Parish
School
Brothers
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A glass of whisky in Scotland in the thirties cost less than a cup of tea.
Catherine Helen Spence / Author
Cost
Glasses
Scotland
Tea
Whisky
Less
Cup
Glass
Thirties
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Even before the discovery of copper South Australia had turned the corner.
Catherine Helen Spence / Author
Australia
Copper
Discovery
Corner
Turned
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The Town Clerkship, however, was the means of giving me a lesson in electoral methods.
Catherine Helen Spence / Author
Giving
Lessons
Mean
Electoral
Lesson
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South Australia was the first community to give the secret ballot for political elections.
Catherine Helen Spence / Author
Australia
Community
Giving
Secret
Ballot
Elections
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After the break up of the municipality and the loss of his income my father lost health and spirits.
Catherine Helen Spence / Author
Break Up
Smile
Breakup
Father
Income
Loss
Spirits
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Drinking habits were very prevalent among men, and were not in any way disgraceful, unless excessive.
Catherine Helen Spence / Author
Men
Disgraceful
Drinking
Way
Among
Excessive
Habits
Unless
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Nothing is insignificant in the history of a young community, and - above all - nothing seems impossible.
Catherine Helen Spence / Author
Community
Impossible
Insignificant
Young
Above
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I think I was well brought up, for my father and mother were of one mind regarding the care of the family.
Catherine Helen Spence / Author
Father
Mother
Thinking
Regarding
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The first issue of The Register was printed in London, and gave a glowing account of the province that was to be - its climate, its resources, the sound principles on which it was founded.
Catherine Helen Spence / Author
Glowing
Issues
London
Principles
Register
Resources
Sound
Account
Issue
Province
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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.
Catherine Helen Spence / Author
Love
Australia
Land
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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.
Catherine Helen Spence / Author
Adoption
Australia
Expanding
Motherland
Bond
Develop
Eager
To Love
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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 / Author
Australia
Consumption
Long
Middle
Mother
Life Family Mother
Life Family Me
Beyond
Helped
Prolonged
Tendency
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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.
Catherine Helen Spence / Author
Australian
Children
Grain
Hands
Produce
Victoria
Wife
Almost All
Returned
Send
Wives
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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.
Catherine Helen Spence / Author
Age
Teacher
Admirable
Educated
School
Thirteen
Advance
Attended
Count
Till
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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.
Catherine Helen Spence / Author
Australia
Bridges
Machinery
Transport
Wealth
Exchange
Export
Great Deal
Production
Ports
Roads
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