Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes. ✨ The Pictur…

Oscar Wilde
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Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes. ✨ The Picture of Dorian Gray ch. 4 (1891). A similar quotation occurs inWilde's play LadyWindermere's Fan, act 3 (1892).
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