கல்லா தவரின் கடையென்ப கற்றறிந்தும் நல்லா ரவையஞ்சு வார்.
Original Tamil · Tiruvalluvar · Senkanthal digital edition
Read Kural 729 ↗Kural 729
Who, though they've learned, before the council of the good men quake, Than men unlearn'd a lower place must take.
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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