BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, acknowledged as one of the founding fathers of the United States, popularized the quote, “In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.”

It was an excerpt in a letter Franklin wrote to French scientist Jean-Baptiste Leroy in November 1789, which was re-printed in The Works of Benjamin Franklin in 1817.

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