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Kural 452

Kural 452 · Avoiding mean Associations

நிலத்தியல்பால் நீர்திரிந் தற்றாகும் மாந்தர்க்கு இனத்தியல்ப தாகும் அறிவு.

Original Tamil · Tiruvalluvar · Senkanthal digital edition

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Sourced translation · English

The waters' virtues change with soil through which they flow; As man's companionship so will his wisdom show.

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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