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Hume Nisbet Quotes

1849–1923 Australia

James Hume Nisbet (8 August 1849 – 4 June 1923) was a Scottish-born novelist and artist. Many of his thrillers are set in Australia.

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You will find very exquisite flowers sometimes even on a dust-heap, as well as where humanity grows thickest and rankest.

The Haunted Station and Other Stories (1894)

Pity should cover both sin and woe.

I was inhaling the delicious summer air and once more getting back the vigour and happiness I had lost; my city-dried brains were again becoming juicy.

Stories Weird and Wonderful (1900)

When a man devotes himself body and spirit to a single object, if he has training and aptitude, no matter how mediocre he may be in ordinary affairs, he will produce something so nearly akin to a work of genius as to deceive half the judges who think themselves competent to decide between genius and talent.

The Haunted Station and Other Stories (1894)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Hume Nisbet (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.