தெண்ணீர் அடுபுற்கை ஆயினும் தாள்தந்தது உண்ணலின் ஊங்கினிய தில்.
Original Tamil · Tiruvalluvar · Senkanthal digital edition
Read Kural 1065 ↗Kural 1065
Nothing is sweeter than to taste the toil-won cheer, Though mess of pottage as tasteless as the water clear.
G. U. Pope · 1886 · Public domain. Historical wording is preserved.
Source record
Tiruvalluvar; Tamil digital dataset Senkanthal.org
MIT (explicit dataset permission in repository README); underlying classical Tamil public domain
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