Tol Eressëa "The Lonely Isle"

I am not dying this year and may not even die next year. Waiting for death
year in and year out, I am growing restless. While death does not come, woes
are approching. Yet those woes are not approching fast enough!
今年不死，明年不死，年年等死，等不出死，反等出禍。然而禍來又不即來，等死又不即
死，真令人歎塵世苦海之難逃也。可如何！

In sea battle, there is no special trick。 Larger ships defeat smaller
ships. Larger guns defeat smaller guns. The side that has more ships defeats
the side that has fewer. The side that has more guns defeats the side that has
less.
海上之戰無他術，大船勝小船，大銃勝小銃，多船勝寡船，多銃勝寡銃而已。

"Is it painful?"
"No pain."
"Monk, why did you cut yourself like that?"
"What else could a man over seventy do?"
問：「和尚痛否？」
答：「不痛。」
問：「和尚何自割？」
答：「七十老翁何所求！」

Isn't His Highness the Eldest Imperial Son good-looking! With such a dragon
poise and such phoenix eyes! There is not the slightest doubt about it: Your
Majesty's kind-heartedness is bringing you the strongest posterity ever! Your
fulfillment is to reach the top of sky!
皇長子龍姿鳳目，歧嶷非凡。仰見皇上昌後之仁，齊天之福！

It has already been some time since the people under Heaven started to re-
gard Your Majesty as unworthy.
蓋天下之人不直陛下久矣。

Its primary concern, furthermore, was "to teach the student to write 100
characters daily."
其教學進度，以「每日總授不過兩百字」為原則。