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Experience is the name every one gives to their mistakes. - Oscar Wilde
Attribution: Oscar Wilde (1854–1900), Anglo-Irish playwright, author. Dumby, in Lady Windermere’s Fan, act 3 (1893). Wilde used the same formulation in The Picture of Dorian Gray, ch. 4 (1891).

Categories: Author, Errors, Experience, Playwright

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