Benjamin Franklin:

In wine there is wisdom, in beer there is strength, in water there is bacteria.

— Benjamin Franklin Early Modern

Electricity experiments, founding father

Attributed to Franklin, but likely a modern paraphrase of his thoughts on drink.

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