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L'Estrange version
A man that had a very course voice, but an excellent musique-room, would be still practising in that chamber, for the advantage of the eccho. He took such a conceit upon't, that he must needs be shewing his parts upon a publick theatre, where he performed so very ill, that the auditory hiss'd him off the stage, and threw stones at him.
Moral
A man may like himself very well in his own glass, and yet the world not fall in love with him in publick. But the truth on't is, we are partial in our own case, and there's no reading of our selves but with other mans eyes.
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