Quote#Books & Reading
A pamphlet, no matter how good, is never read more than once, but a…
Quote byJoe Hill · 1879–1915
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Letter to the editor of Solidarity (1914-11-29).
English (original)
A pamphlet, no matter how good, is never read more than once, but a song is learned by heart and repeated over and over. And I maintain that if a person can put a few common sense facts into a song and dress them up in a cloak of humor, he will succeed in reaching a great number of workers who are too unintelligent or too indifferent to read.
— Joe Hill
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