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Thirukkural 783

Kural 783

நவில்தொறும் நூல்நயம் போலும் பயில்தொறும்
பண்புடை யாளர் தொடர்பு.

Navildhorum Noolnayam Polum Payildhorum
Panputai Yaalar Thotarpu

Learned scroll the more you ponder, Sweeter grows the mental food; So the heart by use grows fonder, Bound in friendship with the good

Meaning

Like learning, the friendship of the noble, the more it is cultivated, the more delightful does it become.

Plain English meaning from the 19th-century prose translation by W. H. Drew and John Lazarus. The verse above is G. U. Pope's translation (1886).

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