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“Our new Constitution is now established, and has an appearance that promises permanency; but in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.”
Benjamin Franklin
“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”
“Our best built certainties are but sand-houses and subject to damage from any wind of doubt that blows”
Mark Twain
“It will start in here in November and rain about four, and sometimes as much as seven days on a stretch; after that, you may loan out your umbrella for twelve months, with the serene confidence which a Christian feels in four aces”
“Both marriage and death ought to be welcome: the one promises happiness, doubtless the other assures it”
“Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother's love is not.”
James Joyce
“There isn't a single human characteristic that can be safely labelled as 'American.''”
“Everybody lies, everybody dies; the only certain things in our present world.”
Michal Baca
“Do the thing you fear, and the death of fear is certain”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“We are strong and meager up to a certain maximum; past that is insanity.”
Mariana Fulger
