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[hiromichi]

What is "black care"? And I like to know the original of T. Roosevelt.

“Black care never catches a rider whose pace is fast enough,” he said at one point, offering a slight variation on something Theodore Roosevelt once said. “You got that?”
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Hiromichi

[Philo Kevetch]

Hello Hiromichi -

'black Care' = ill humo(u)r; melancholy; depression; etc.
(some argue - bad luck or the devil)

from Horace (Satires) "Care, a black companion dogs and follows a man who flees"

Theodore ('Teddy') Roosevelt - "Black care rarely sits behind a rider whose pace is fast enough."

Interesting 'lapsus' in the use of "catch" by 'Blogo', don't you think? Philo

[hiromichi]

Philo Kevetch,
A very interesting variation. Thank you very much.
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Hiromichi