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Kettinum Untor Urudhi KilaignaraiNeetti Alappadhor Kol

Ruin itself one blessing lends:'Tis staff that measures out one's friends

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Even in ruin there is some good; (for) it is a rod by which one may measure fully (the affection of one's) relations