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['Stritar mentions George Sand and her novel Valentine. He claims that Slovenians do not need their own Homer, Shakespeare, Goethe, Heine and George Sand. He suggests that Slovenians start building from the floor up and wait until, in the course of time, Slovenian Fausts, Hamlets, Iliads and Valentines are born.\nJosip Stritar mentioned also Madame de Staël. The author thinks about the French quotation “Tout comprendre, c’est tout pardonner.” He has heard that it is attributed to Madame de Staël, but he does not believe it since, as he affirms, he has read her De l’Allemagne (1810/1813) and Corinne (1807), and another work of which he does not remember the title anymore. For this reason he states that it is not flour from her mill. He continues that he cannot stand the French author as Napoleon could not either.']
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