Serendipity... You will understand it better by the derivation than by the definition. I once read 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.
Horace WalpoleI know that I have had friends who would never have vexed or betrayed me, if they had walked on all fours.
Horace Walpole