Experience is the name every one gives to their mistakes.

Oscar Wilde

Lady Windermere's Fan

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Topic

Life experience Mistakes

Speaker

Dumby

Author

Oscar Wilde

Source

Lady Windermere's Fan

Medium

Play

Language

English

Time

1892 1890s 19th century

Occupation

Playwright Writer

From

Ireland Europe

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Original Citation

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

Current Citation

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

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Patriotism is, fundamentally, a conviction that a particular country is the best in the world because you were born in it.

George Bernard Shaw

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Topic
Patriotism

Author

George Bernard Shaw
Source
Music in London The World
Language
English
Time
1893 1890s 19th century
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Citation

Shaw, George Bernard. "Music in London." The World. London, 15 Nov. 1893.

Another quote about Mistakes

Experience keeps a dear school, yet Fools will learn In no other.

Poor Richard (Benjamin Franklin)

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Topic
Learning from mistakes Mistakes Life experience Learning Fools

Author

Poor Richard (Benjamin Franklin)
Source
Poor Richard's Almanack
Medium
Almanac
Statement Type
Proverbs, aphorisms and adages
Language
English
Time
1743 1740s 18th century
Era
Colonial America
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Original Citation

Franklin, Benjamin [published as Richard Saunders]. Poor Richard's Almanack. Philadelphia, 1743.

Current Citation

Franklin, Benjamin. "Poor Richard’s Almanack, 1743." Benjamin Franklin: Autobiography, Poor Richard, and Later Writings, edited by J. A. Leo Lemay. Library of America, 2005.