“The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.”

(-; I like it a lot ;-) way too much truth for comfort there !

A fun set today: Ben Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, and a Lily Tomlin quote that summarizes the whole of life ( sort-of ).
Hence, the Editor's choice to offset the long and prolonged quotations of that-there period of time; not that there's one single thing wrong with either Ben or Tommy-boy ( as I used to call him ).

Then get me out of the maze!