Steve, I am only saying that I think you simply spend a bit too much attention to somethign that you will not change anyway. Many people will continue to attribute said two quotes to Franklin, no matter what those dudes in that other forum said. It happe, you don't like it, but it happens nevertheless. Its not as if any real serious consequences are caused by this. Its harmless. it does not matter that much. No information damage has been done. Those two statements are good ones. Some say the author is named wrong, okay. So be it. i do not know - the ultimate evidence for the opposite the links you posted do not provide, too, btw. Just some people claiming somethingthign diffefebt, and hinting by wuotes from some other people that the two sentences could as well be collected from the context of words by somebody else. Just saying - I really dont want to start a fight here.
Compare this to me living in a sociocultural habitat where 99,9% of the population seriously believes that this political freak show event around them indeed is correctly attributed to what ancient Greek democracy was about - there you have a big distortion of things, and according consequences! What e call demicracy today, to the old Greeks would have appeared as tyranny! Still we call Greek the cradle of our modern poltical order!?
I think my suffering is much bigger than yours!
BTW, I do not "treasure" psychology the way you seem to think I do. Way too much stupid babbling in there, if you ask me, way too much. But not all is bad, and so some stuff I keep on mind. I have voluntarily given up this branch, and not even for one day I have ever regretted to do so - what does this tell you?
I would share your pedantry on this quoting thing if I would write an academic paper, or somethign meant for professional publishing, a book. There are academic standards and rules for correct quoting: footnotes, sources to be given and colelcted in an appendix, quoting in correct context, and so forth, not to mention: checking the copyrights. But hey, this is a bar, no university, so enjoy the jokes and the cold beer. Life can be easy.