28 – “Experience is the name every one gives to their mistakes.”

– Mr. Dumby in Oscar Wilde’s Lady Windermere’s Fan: A Play about a Good Woman

Quote Number: 378

Source: Wilde, Oscar. Lady Windermere’s Fan: A Play about a Good Woman. Champaign, Ill.: Project Gutenberg, 1997.

Source Notes: Also quoted in: Wilde, Oscar. Vera, Or, The Nihilists: A Drama in a Prologue, and Four Acts. London: L. Smithers, 1902.

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