Experience is the name every one gives to their mistakes. — Oscar Wilde · Skopia

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Experience is the name every one gives to their mistakes.

Lady Windermere's Fan · 1892

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Wilde, Oscar. "Lady Windermere's Fan." Oscar Wilde: The Major Works, edited by Isobel Murray. Oxford University Press, 2008, act 3.

Original citation

Wilde, Oscar. Lady Windermere's Fan, A Play About a Good Woman. 1892, St James's Theatre, London, England, UK, act 3.

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