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In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes
Death and taxes are the only things that we can be sure of. This saying comes from the letters of Benjamin Franklin.
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In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes and debates about cultural appropriation.
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The case might have surprised even Benjamin Franklin, who said that "in this world nothing is certain but death and taxes."Last week nine-year-old Carmin Fisher of Junction City, Ore., found out that the Internal Revenue Service had seized the $70.76 in her account at a local bank.
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Our Constitution is in actual operation; everything appears to promise that it will last; but in this world nothing is certain but death and taxes.
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