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"Be poor is not bad. Bad is to be a rich, on the highest degree of fame, with their moral covered in mud." I tried to translate a sentence that I heard in my native language into English. Is that sentence grammatically correct?
"Be poor is not bad. Bad is to be a rich, on the highest degree of fame, with their moral covered in mud." I tried to translate a sentence that I heard in my native language into English. Is that sentence grammatically correct?
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"Being poor is not what's bad. It's being rich that is bad, in the highest degree of fame, with their morals covered in mud"
It makes a little more sense this way

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