Don Juan 05-017
Canto the Fifth
 
     XVII
 
"But droop not: Fortune at your time of life,
     Although a female moderately fickle,
Will hardly leave you (as she's not your wife)
     For any length of days in such a pickle.
To strive, too, with our fate were such a strife
     As if the corn-sheaf should oppose the sickle:
Men are the sport of circumstances, when
The circumstances seem the sport of men."
 
George Gordon Byron, Lord Byron (1788-1824) 
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