Show Two Things Certain Benjamin Franklin is credited with being th the first firs to make the statement that only two things are certain death certain death and taxes Franklin mentioned this certainty in a letter to his friend M M. Leroy of the French Academy of Sciences in 1789 He stated Our Constitution Constitution Constitution tion is in actual operation Everything Everything Everything Every Every- thing appears to promise that it will ast last but in this world nothing is certain but death and taxes Whether the expression was original original original inal with Franklin is unknown but it was for him to contrast the uncertainties of the newly adopted adopt adopt- ed Constitution with these two cere Charles Dickens In his Da David vid Copperfield written 60 years later has Barkis say soy It was as true as taxes is And nothings nothing's nothings nothing's nothings nothing's noth noth- ings ing's truer than them |