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Quotes from The Haunted Station and Other Stories — Hume Nisbet

1849–1923 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)

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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