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He did not pretend to know much about horse-racing, and I probably know even less ; but I understand that it would be impossible to adjust the 'hedging' with sufficient exactitude in fact, to get bets of the right amount taken by the backers. Two other 'dodges' of his may be mentioned here. He said that, if a dull writer sent you a copy of his books, you should at once write and thank him, and should add, with delphic ambiguity, that you will lose no time in perusing them ! Being a strict moral...ist, he must assuredly have meant so palpable an equivocation to be regarded as a mere jeu d'esprit. He was doubtless more serious in asserting that, whenever a mother held up an uncomely infant for his inspection, he met her wist- ful gaze with the exclamation, ' He is a baby ! ' Might not Falconbridge have condoned such an evasion in extremis as being, at worst, * a virtuous sin ' ? To be frank would be a mortal offence ; and H ii4 Among My Books to avert such a mishap, one might be tempted to invoke a principle which assuredly could not be extended to all cases ' Salus amiciticz, s uprema lex/ Better this than to set up the more widely applicable and therefore more abusable plea ' De minimis non curat moralitas!
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