歷的錯誤引語(4)

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7. Mark Twain
    Quote: “The only two certainties in life are death and taxes.”
    This is more a problem of misattribution rather than misquotation. Mark Twain did not coin this phrase, it was actually coined by Benjamin Franklin in a letter written to Jean-Baptiste Leroy in 1879.
    馬克·吐溫
    引語:生命中兩樣必定發(fā)生的事情是稅收和死亡。
    這句與其說是錯誤引用,還不如說是張冠李戴。這一名句并非馬克吐溫創(chuàng)造的,而是由本杰明·富蘭克林1879年在寫給讓·巴蒂斯特·雷諾爾的信中創(chuàng)造的。