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Walpole’s Serendipity, Chaucer’s Murder, and Lifelong Learning

April 3, 2014 by libroshombre

One of our culture’s great sources of serendipity, Brewer’s Dictionary of Phrase & Fable,” defines “serendipity “ as “a happy …
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