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Serendipity

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Un amour à New York (2001. Define Serendipity at Dictionary. Serendipity. Serendipity means a "fortunate happenstance" or "pleasant surprise".

Serendipity

It was coined by Horace Walpole in 1754. In a letter he wrote to a friend Walpole explained an unexpected discovery he had made by reference to a Persian fairy tale, The Three Princes of Serendip. The princes, he told his correspondent, were “always making discoveries, by accidents and sagacity, of things which they were not in quest of”.