The Living Kural
DECODE · KURAL 922

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Not Drinking Palm-Wine · Wealth & public life

உண்ணற்க கள்ளை உணில்உண்க சான்றோரான் எண்ணப் படவேண்டா தார்.

Original Tamil · Tiruvalluvar · Senkanthal digital edition

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உண்ணற்க கள்ளை உணில்உண்க சான்றோரான் எண்ணப் படவேண்டா தார்.

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Drink not inebriating draught. Let him count well the cost. Who drinks, by drinking, all good men's esteem is lost.

G. U. Pope, 1886 · Public domain