| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 61330 |
| QUOTATION: | To use bitter words, when kind words are at hand,
Is like picking unripe fruit when the ripe fruit is there. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Tiruvalluvar (c. 5th century A.D.), Tamil sage, poet. repr. Calcutta, Y.M.C.A. Publishing House (1958). The Sacred Kural, translated from the Tirukkural of Tiruvalluvar by H.A. Popley, vs. X.10 (1931).
Legends say that the author was either a Jain monk or a Hindu outcaste priest. |
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