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How do you know? Were you there? Maybe the source you have that says these quotes are in error are in themselves in error..... How do you know?
There is truth itself, and then there is what we 'believe' to be truth...
Don't make me try and get an actual copy of the 1779 letter.
For the record, here, in a letter addressed to André Morellet in 1779, is what Benjamin Franklin actually did say:
Behold the rain which descends from heaven upon our vineyards, there it enters the roots of the vines, to be changed into wine, a constant proof that God loves us, and loves to see us happy.
(Source: Isaacson, Walter. Benjamin Franklin: An American Life. New York: Simon and Schuster, 2003. p.374.)