Bachelor of Arts - pg. 45

He allowed the muddle to remain undisturbed in his mind; he got into the habit of postponing the mighty task of clarifying these issues to a distant favourable day. He usually encouraged himself in all this vagueness by saying that even if he lost thirty marks in each papers owing to these doubts he would still be well within the reach of seventy in each, and, out of this, allowing twenty for defective presentation and examiner's eccentricities, he would still get fifty marks in each paper, which would be ten more than necessary for a pass degree.