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Kural 140

Kural 140 · The Possession of Decorum

உலகத்தோடு ஒட்ட ஒழுகல் பலகற்றும் கல்லார் அறிவிலா தார்.

Original Tamil · Tiruvalluvar · Senkanthal digital edition

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Sourced translation · English

Who know not with the world in harmony to dwell, May many things have learned, but nothing well.

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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