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Greatness of soul, which is another name for unselfish- ness, is best shown in absolute freedom from the "superior vices. " Although on one occasion he did wonder why Dickens' publisher sold five copies of his works for every one that his own publishers sold of his, Thackeray might yet be said to be free of envy ; and he did not hesitate to tell an audience that his little girl had looked up in his face and said, " Papa, I like Mr Dickens' books much better than yours. " Indeed, no author was m...ore generous in the praise of his contemporaries. He was the first to defend " Boz " against the criticism of Jules Janin. He took special delight in the literateness of William Makepeace Thackeray. 145 Bulwer Lytton ; but when Bulwer, in his memoir of Laman Blanchard, made some strictures on men of letters, Thackeray took up the cudgels against him, and penned a vigorous, searching, and in some respects in- imitable defence of them, as well as a manly and touch- ing excuse for the unfortunate subject of the memoir.
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