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Piranmanai Nokkaadha Peraanmai SaandrorkkuAranondro Aandra Vozhukku

Manly excellence, that looks not on another's wife,Is not virtue merely, 'tis full 'propriety' of life

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That noble manliness which looks not at the wife of another is the virtue and dignity of the great