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Imam Ali (PBUH) says

I paid my own politeness and for that literature better than divine piety in all its states, and if it did not, I would not be better than lied to it, and from the absence of the people, they are the absence of God with greatness in the book. The forbidden. O soul, if your word is silver, the silence is gold

Approval of happiness, vol. 7, p. 386

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