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Oscar Wilde Quotes

In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.

Source:The American Invasion (March 23, 1887); in Complete Works of Oscar Wilde (ed. Wyman-Fogg Co., 1921), Volume 10, Page 80
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