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Serendipity was coined by Horace Walpole from the fairy tale, The Three Princes of Serendip (the ancient name for Ceylon), who often set sail for one destination and found something even better, by fortunate accident.
Some other Johnnies neglected by quiz participants--Johnny Angel (Shelley Fabares), Johnny One Note (Rodgers and Hart), Johnny Too Bad (a swell song from The Harder They Come ), and this line of dialogue from the 1959 racially charged English murder mystery Sapphire , spoken, if I recall correctly, by Horace Big Cigar (Robert Adams): "We got plenty Johnnies, boss."
' It occurs in Horace's Ode “To Virgil” [Book iv, Ode 12]:
Thanks in part to his "wandering eye and wickie-wickie ways," he has lost his wife, Jessie (Farrah Fawcett), and two children (he calls them his "beauties") to Horace (Todd Allen), a gentle, callow minister who seems to be, in every way, Sonny's opposite.
They, who have lately written with most care, have, I believe, taken the rule of Horace for their guide; that is, not to be too hasty in receiving of words, but rather to stay till custom has made them familiar to us: