“Death, Taxes, and Aging Eyes”

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Benjamin Franklin famously wrote “in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.”

Franklin was a legendary intellect, and it’s hard to overstate the impact he had. But I’d suggest an addition to that particular quote, one with which I suspect he’d agree.

Most of us know him as one of the Founding Fathers, as the author of Poor Richard'sAlmanack, as the guy wh…