Hong Kong
My dear sister Choleng:
You asked me for some advice, you believing perhaps that I can give you plenty and good ones. Young and without much experience I can give you but very few:
1. Do not do anything which you cannot recite or confide to our elders.
2. When you commit a fault do not think of the excuse for it, but of correcting it and not repeating it.
3. Think always that the world is big and fate inconstant and unfaithful. We are like all men, like the poor and the rich: all equal and all subject to the same misfortunes. That is why it is well to do good always and follow our conscience from which we cannot separate ourselves, for it will be the only one which will console us in our afflictions and in all conditions of our life, etc.
Your brother,
JOSE
Regards to Chengoy and to Tomas
05-284 [100 Letters]