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Tirrukural, the - Book 1 Hospitality
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022821
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Tirrukural, the - Book 1 Hospitality
81. Keeping house and gathering gear
Is all to entertain guests.
82. It is wrong to eat even nectar alone
Leaving your guest outside.
83. The daily feeding of a guest
Will never end in want.
84. Fortune will smile on the host
Who plays host with a smile.
85. Why should he think of sowing
Who feeds his guest before himself?
86. Who hosts the passing guests and waits for more
Will be hosted by the gods.
87. The gains of hospitality cannot be reckoned:
Their worth depends on the guest.
88. “We gathered and we lost", rue those
Who never entertained.
89. To have no guests is to want amidst plenty:
Such poverty belongs to fools.
90. The aniccam withers when smelt:
A cold look withers a guest.