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Quotation from Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Robert Burns

“The best-laid schemes o’ mice an’ men Gang aft agley”

Robert Burns (spoken by The ploughman)

Poems and Songs of Robert Burns, To a Mouse, stanza 7 (1785) (Gutenberg #1279: Poems and Songs of Robert Burns (chronological arrangement))

The most famous lines from the Kilmarnock volume.

Citation: "The best-laid schemes o’ mice an’ men Gang aft agley" — Robert Burns, Poems and Songs of Robert Burns, To a Mouse, stanza 7 (1785) (Gutenberg #1279: Poems and Songs of Robert Burns (chronological arrangement)). (id poems-and-songs-of-robert-burns-q1)

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