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Purangoorip Poiththuyir Vaazhdhalin SaadhalArangootrum Aakkath Tharum

'Tis greater gain of virtuous good for man to die,Than live to slander absent friend, and falsely praise when nigh

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Death rather than life will confer upon the deceitful backbiter the profit which (the treatises on) virtue point out