Actually, this is what he said in the Hobbit:
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It was often said (in other families) that long ago one of the Took ancestors must have taken a fairy wife. That is, of course, absurd, but certainly there was still something not entirely hobbitlike about them,and once in a while members of the Took-clan would go and have adventures.
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If you look in Fellowship, you'll see that the Tooks are of the Fallohide branch of the Hobbits, who are bolder and more adventurous than the others.