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“The best laid schemes o' mice and men Gang aft a-gley; And leave us naught but grief and pain For promised joy.”
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- Source:
- To a Mouse.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- d86f4e6a789b2f5e622cfd4cb60df1c50e1ea1897fecd2902f2496f969c54327
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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