நகைஈகை இன்சொல் இகழாமை நான்கும் வகையென்ப வாய்மைக் குடிக்கு.
Original Tamil · Tiruvalluvar · Senkanthal digital edition
Read Kural 953 ↗Kural 953
The smile, the gift, the pleasant word, unfailing courtesy These are the signs, they say, of true nobility.
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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