Don Juan 02-201
Canto the Second

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Some take a lover, some take drams or prayers,
     Some mind their household, others dissipation,
Some run away, and but exchange their cares,
     Losing the advantage of a virtuous station;
Few changes e'er can better their affairs,
     Theirs being an unnatural situation,
From the dull palace to the dirty hovel:
Some play the devil, and then write a novel.

George Gordon Byron, Lord Byron (1788-1824) ByronLong