Who originally said the only thing certain in life death and taxes?
Ben Franklin's quote "but in the world nothing can be said to be
certain except death and taxes."
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This statement is untrue. Although Benjamin Franklin DID state
this in a letter to French physicist and writer, Jean- Baptiste
Leroy. Daniel Defoe, in fact, said the statement, " Things as
certain as death and taxes can be more firmly believed."
Proving the above statement wrong.