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Serendipity

The word "serendipity" was coined by Horace Walpole, who explained that he was inspired by "a silly fairy tale, called The Three Princes of Serendip: as their highnesses traveled, they were always making discoveries, by accidents and sagacity, of things which they were not in quest of..."

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Uploaded on February 14, 2006
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