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Kural 667

Kural 667 · Power in Action

உருவுகண்டு எள்ளாமை வேண்டும் உருள்பெருந்தேர்க்கு அச்சாணி அன்னார் உடைத்து.

Original Tamil · Tiruvalluvar · Senkanthal digital edition

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Sourced translation · English

Despise not men of modest bearing; Look not at form, but what men are: For some there live, high functions sharing, Like linch-pin of the mighty car!

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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