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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 Walpole's Popular Quotes

Who has begun has half done. Have the courage to be wise. Begin!

- Horace Walpole

When people will not weed their own minds, they are apt to be overrun by nettles.

- Horace Walpole

The whole [Scotch] nation hitherto has been void of wit and humour, and even incapable of relishing it.

- Horace Walpole

The wisest prophets make sure of the event first.

- Horace Walpole

Of Ickworth's boys, their father's joys, There is but one a bad one; The tenth is he, the parson's fee, And indeed he is a sad one. No love of fame, …

- Horace Walpole

The curse of modern times is, that almost everything does create controversy.

- Horace Walpole

Life is a farce, and should not end with a mourning scene.

- Horace Walpole

Foolish writers and readers are created for each other.

- Horace Walpole

Nine-tenths of the people were created so you would want to be with the other tenth.

- Horace Walpole