Francis Stevens' Sketchbook, page 51, Chinese Proverb and Sketch, [no date]

Note of a Chinese proverb, with a sketch.

[Working transcription:]

If there be no faith in our words, of what use

are they.- Do not consider any [view?] as trivial

& therefore practice it: do not consider any

Virtue unimportant & therefore neglect it.

Following virtue is like ascending a steep:

following a [view?] like kicking down a prec

ipice.   Chinese Proverbs.

[sketch]

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