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Kural 424

Kural 424 · The Possession of Knowledge

எண்பொருள வாகச் செலச்சொல்லித் தான்பிறர்வாய் நுண்பொருள் காண்ப தறிவு.

Original Tamil · Tiruvalluvar · Senkanthal digital edition

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Sourced translation · English

Wisdom hath use of lucid speech, words that acceptance win, And subtle sense of other men's discourse takes in.

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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