...True, your wife ought to be beautiful lest you tire of each other quickly; and a lack of brains is not recommended since you must hold converse with each other, but this is not the heart of the matter.

The important requisite is that your wife should not be prone to evil, for it is your wife who gives you meat and gives you drink and is admitted most to your secrets. God has created them such close creatures that there hardly exists any manner in which they cannot come at a man.

And to you my daughter, do not be easily deceived by the words of a man who says your beauty did not draw him to you- for how would he run after you at an appearance and claim your intelligence made him come? This is the truth, do not concern yourself with searching for the right man, make yourself the right woman because bees are attracted to sweet scent- if darkness gets attracted to light, it is sure of death.

And do not engage in that gamble- if he can't drop any habit you detest now, thinking he would in marriage is more dangerous than sipping a cup of acid. See, easy with your chase for success itself, it takes skill not strength, or would you say your father lied when he said success is one of the cheapest commodity one can get as long as he has the right negotiating skills?

I have come of age my son, and these legs have walked miles... For the era of age equalling experience is dead and long buried, now experience equals exposure and that can be bought with the cheap currency of open mindedness.

My unborn children, listen... For it is in my letters that the map is drawn.

Acknowledgement: Forest of a thousand daemons and D. Omoni.

Welldone!!!