The word serendipity was formed by English author Horace Walpole (1717-1797) from Serendip (also Serendib), an old name for Sri Lanka, in reference to a Persian tale, The Three Princes of Serendip, whose heroes "discovered, quite unexpectedly, great and wonderful good in the most unlikely of situations, places and people."
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wonderjunki
Jul 18, 2007 00:58
Also, I think I have a crush on
gawker's unethicist guy. Nicol Williamson said, "If you can make a woman laugh, you can do anything with her." I don't know who that is/was, but he's pretty much right.