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Nattaarkku Nalla Seyalin ViraindhadheOttaarai Ottik Kolal

Than kindly acts to friends more urgent thing to do, Is making foes to cling as friends attached to you

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One should rather hasten to secure the alliance of the foes (of one's foes) than perform good offices to one's friends