The best laid schemes o' mice and men Gang aft a-gley; And leave us naught but grief and pain For promised joy.
Robert Burns
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- 85% sureThese words were traced back to where they first appeared. That source is listed below.
- To a Mouse.; Bartlett, Familiar Quotations, ninth edition, Robert Burns entry; To a Mouse.; Wording and named source checked in Bartlett’s published reference; the original work is identified by title and locator. Literary excerpts, not claims of personal spoken testimony.
- To a Mouse.
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