King Henry

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“An illiterate king is a crowned ass.”
—Medieval English proverb.

Said by the chronicler William of Malmesbury to have been much used by King Henry I of England (1068-1135)

“Fact I know; and Law I know; but what is this Necessity, save an empty shadow of my own mind’s throwing?”
—Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–1895)