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Horace, Satires 2.3.1-3

“This is the common fault of all singers: when they are asked to sing, among their friends, they can never summon up the courage to do it; but when no one asks for a song, they just cannot stop singing.”

Omnibus hoc vitium est cantoribus, inter amicos

ut numquam inducant animum cantare rogati, 

iniussi numquam desistant. 

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