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George Savile

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George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax (11 November 1633 - 5 April 1695) tawu ngota negarawan, ta hemoluladu, wawu politikus to Enggeleti.

  • Our nature hardly allows us to have enough of anything without having too much.
    • Nga'amila tawuwalo tingga maoditolo jamotolu lo sadi-sadiya debo mo'otohilao nga'amila malali haku liyo.
      • On Dr. Gilbert Burnet (1643-1715), Bishop of Salisbury: as cited in The Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors: 1639-1729 , ed. Charles Wells Moulton, H. Malkan (1910) p. 591.

The Anatomy of an Equivalent (1688)

  • Tawuwalo u hebiasawa mowali tatawariya madelo burungi sayapu liyo ndaya-ndayango diya mowali langgato tumboto.
    Every single act either weakeneth or improveth our credit with other men; and as an habit of being just to our word will confirm, so an habit of too freely dispensing with it must necessarily destroy it.
    • Nga'amila hehutuwalo tiye mo'otapu niyati to tawuwalo; Madelo hehutuwalo adi-adili to woluwo londo Eya mayi, odito'olo anu malopa-lopato da'a malali andu-andulu.
      • The Anatomy of an Equivalent: from The Complete Works of George Savile, First Marquess of Halifax (1912), ed. Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh, Clarendon Press p. 123.

The Lady's New Year's Gift: or Advice to a Daughter (1688)

  • A Husband without faults is a dangerous observer.
    • Hiyalo diya-diya'a loma'o tala liyo, bilo-bilohu mo'ohe.

A Character of King Charles II (1750)

  • A very great memory often forgetteth how much time is lost by repeating things of no use.
    • Huto'o umotota molilipata i'ilangi dadata wakutu to u'jahunaliyo.
      • On King Charles II’s memory.