20 Famous Quotes That Were Never Actually Spoken

by Chris Waugh

1. "The Only Two Certainties In Life Are Death And Taxes" - Mark Twain

Okay so this was actually spoken, and by Twain himself - but he was at the very least the fourth person to have said it, yet is associated with it.

In fact, US founding father Benjamin Franklin, English writer Edward Ward and playwright Christopher Bullock all uttered the phrase before the author of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn did.

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