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Quotation from To a Mouse by Robert Burns
“The best-laid schemes o’ mice an’ men Gang aft agley, An’ lea’e us nought but grief an’ pain, For promis’d joy”
To a Mouse, Stanza 7 (Gutenberg #1279: Poems and Songs of Robert Burns (chronological arrangement))
The proverbial lines on how plans go astray, applied to both the mouse and humankind.
Citation: "The best-laid schemes o’ mice an’ men Gang aft agley, An’ lea’e us nought but grief an’ pain, For promis’d joy" — Robert Burns, To a Mouse, Stanza 7 (Gutenberg #1279: Poems and Songs of Robert Burns (chronological arrangement)). (id to-a-mouse-q3)
