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Best Laid Plans
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From Robert Burns' poem 'To a Mouse,' this famous line about the unpredictability of life is frequently misquoted, swapping a key word for a similar but different one.
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What People Remember
People often remember the phrase as 'The best laid schemes of mice and men / Go often awry.'
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What's Actually True
The actual line from the poem is 'The best laid plans o' Mice an' Men / Gang aft agley,' using 'plans' and a Scottish dialect for 'go often awry.'
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#quotes#literary#robert burns#poem#proverb
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