குறள் 478

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Aakaaru Alavitti Thaayinung KetillaiPokaaru Akalaak Katai

Incomings may be scant; but yet, no failure there,If in expenditure you rightly learn to spare

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Even though the income (of a king) be small, it will not cause his (ruin), if his outgoings be not larger than his income