Quote#Books & Reading
For this book is for me and all kings to read
Quote byHenry VIII of England · 1491–1547
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: On William Tyndale's The Obedience of a Christian Man (c. 1528), quoted in John Strype, Ecclesiastical Memorials: Relating Chiefly to Religion, and Its Reformation Under the Reigns of King Henry VIII., King Edward VI., and Queen Mary the First, Volume I (1816), p. 177.
English (original)
For this book is for me and all kings to read.
— Henry VIII of England
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