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Aranjollum Nenjaththaan Anmai PuranjollumPunmaiyaar Kaanap Patum

The slanderous meanness that an absent friend defames,'This man in words owns virtue, not in heart,' proclaims

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The emptiness of that man's mind who (merely) praises virtue will be seen from the meanness of reviling another behind his back