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“To consider oneself different from ordinary men is wrong, but it is right to hope that one will not remain like ordinary men.”

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Yoshida Shoin was a Japanese intellectual and samurai from the late Edo period. He is known for his contributions to the Meiji Restoration and his influential teachings on Western learning and military strategy. more

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