Benjamin Franklin, not just a great statesman!

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....and internet beer quote fraud.

kinda hard to attribute that to Franklin considering he died like 40 years before the term bacterium was introduced
 
He also never said this either...

Beer is living proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy

–Benjamin Franklin

From Maureen Ogle's Book, Ambitious Brew, the story of American Brewing.

In recent years, beer drinkers have worn t-shirts decorated with a quote attributed to Ben Franklin: "Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy." Just one problem: Franklin didn't say that. It's a mangled version of another Franklin quote about the pleasures of wine. In a 1779 letter, he wrote that the rain that fell on vineyards and transformed vines into grapes for wine provided "a constant proof that God loves us, and loves to see us happy."
 
True Ben Franklin qote about beer:

"Pour me another Arrogant Bastard. I'm gonna get f#cking wrecked tonight. Them I'm gonna splash some cash on a really hot hooker."

Well, maybe he didn't say that, bit with his rep, he coulda said something close. ;)
 
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