Serendipity means to make discoveries, by accident and sagacity, of things not in quest of.
The word
serendipity was coined by
Horace Walpole in a letter he wrote to his friend, Horace Mann, the English resident in Florence.
"I once read a silly fairy tale, called
The Three Princes of Serendip: as their highnesses travelled, they were always making discoveries, by accidents and sagacity, of things which they were not in quest of: for instance, one of them discovered that a mule blind of the right eye had travelled the same road lately, because the grass was eaten only on the left side, where it was worse than on the right—now do you understand
serendipity? One of the most remarkable instances of this
accidental sagacity (for you must observe that
no discovery of a thing you
are looking for, comes under this description) was of my Lord Shaftsbury, who happening to dine at Lord Chancellor Clarendon's, found out the marriage of the Duke of York and Mrs. Hyde, by the respect with which her mother treated her at table."
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