Experience is the name every one gives to their mistakes.
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It is a sad truth, but we have lost the faculty of giving lovely names to things. Names are everything. I never quarrel with actions. My one quarrel is with words. . . . The man who could call a spade a spade should be compelled to use one.Oscar Wilde
Yes, I am a thorough republican. No other form of government is so favorable to the growth of art.
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Those who are faithless know the pleasures of love it is the faithful who know love's tragedies
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Experience is the name we give to our mistakes.
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Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
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Lots of people act well, but few people talk well. This shows that talking is the more difficult of the two.
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