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Kural 641

Kural 641 · Power of Speech

நாநலம் என்னும் நலனுடைமை அந்நலம் யாநலத்து உள்ளதூஉம் அன்று.

Original Tamil · Tiruvalluvar · Senkanthal digital edition

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Sourced translation · English

A tongue that rightly speaks the right is greatest gain, It stands alone midst goodly things that men obtain.

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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