Is there anything ungrammatical about this sentence, beyond...

[Wilson Gray]

"I wouldn't put it this way"?

Purslane started its cultivation in India and Persia.

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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint to
come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
-Mark Twain

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