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Kural 100

Kural 100 · The Utterance of Pleasant Words

இனிய உளவாக இன்னாத கூறல் கனிஇருப்பக் காய்கவர்ந் தற்று.

Original Tamil · Tiruvalluvar · Senkanthal digital edition

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Sourced translation · English

When pleasant words are easy, bitter words to use, Is, leaving sweet ripe fruit, the sour unripe to choose.

G. U. Pope · 1886 · Public domain. Historical wording is preserved.

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Tiruvalluvar; Tamil digital dataset Senkanthal.org

MIT (explicit dataset permission in repository README); underlying classical Tamil public domain

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