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ParosatajātakaJātaka 101 · Volume 1, translated by Robert Chalmers (1895)
Public domain. Robert Chalmers’s translation was published in 1895. The Pali is the Mahāsaṅgīti edition published by SuttaCentral under CC0. The canonical Pali Jātaka consists of the verses only (1 verse here); the prose story around them comes from the later commentary, which the English translates in full. So the verses are shown beside the whole English story, not verse by verse.
Pali verses
“Parosatañcepi samāgatānaṁ,
Jhāyeyyuṁ te vassasataṁ apaññā;
Ekova seyyo puriso sapañño,
Yo bhāsitassa vijānāti atthan”ti.
English Chalmers 1895
Far better than a hundred fools, though they
Think hard a hundred years unceasingly,
Is one who, hearing, straightway understands.
[411] This story is in all respects analogous to the Parosahassa-Jātaka (No. 99), with the sole difference that 'think hard' is read here.