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Siriyaar Unarchchiyul Illai PeriyaaraipPenikkol Vemennum Nokku

'As votaries of the truly great we will ourselves enroll,'Is thought that enters not the mind of men of little soul

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It is never in the nature of the base to seek the society of the great and partake of their nature