Ed Smith
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in Pembury, The United Kingdom
July 19, 1977
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“It is not an exaggeration to say that a whole strand of the game, a rich vein that runs through the game's poetic heart, departs the scene with India's greatest-ever No. 3. Playing T20 cricket won't teach anyone to become the next Rahul Dravid.”
― Rahul Dravid: Timeless Steel
― Rahul Dravid: Timeless Steel
“Serendipity is another word in the luck family. Invented by Horace Walpole in 1754, it appropriately began life as a misprint. Walpole wrote a letter to Horace Mann developing the idea of serendipity from a ‘silly fairytale’ about chance called The Three Princes of Serendip. But Walpole had made a mistake: the real title of the story was The Three Princes of Sarendip (the ancient name for Sri Lanka).”
― Luck: What It Means and Why It Matters
― Luck: What It Means and Why It Matters
“Serendipity is another word in the luck family. Invented by Horace Walpole in 1754, it appropriately began life as a misprint. Walpole wrote a letter to Horace Mann developing the idea of serendipity from a ‘silly fairytale’ about chance called The Three Princes of Serendip. But Walpole had made a mistake: the real title of the story was The Three Princes of Sarendip (the ancient name for Sri Lanka). Before its current fashionable”
― Luck: What It Means and Why It Matters
― Luck: What It Means and Why It Matters
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