| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 61313 |
| QUOTATION: | The gruel that children’s little hands have stirred
Is sweeter than nectar. |
| 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. VII.3 (1931).
Legends say that the author was either a Jain monk or a Hindu outcaste priest. |
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