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What I looked up to in Shota was not his 'strength'. It was his heroic courage to put his life on the line to carry out his convictions.

He thought of them yearning for fame.

Her dream is to become a simultaneous interpreter.

I sometimes wish I could live a quiet retired sort of life but I doubt I could stand it for more than a few days.

One who longs for death is miserable, but more miserable is he who fears it.

We look back on days gone by, if not always with affections, at any rate with a kind of wistfulness.