“Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.”

— Oscar Wilde

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About Oscar Wilde

Author • Irish

Oscar Wilde was an Irish poet and playwright who became one of London's most popular writers in the early 1890s. He is remembered for his epigrams, his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray, and his numerous plays, including...

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