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Oft repeated in later life, as quoted in the Hartford Christian Secretary, vol. 9, no. 40 (October 23, 1830), p. 160, col. 3. Elizabeth A. Thurston (ed.) Mosaics of Human Life (Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co., 1866), p. 142: "A kiss from my mother made me a painter."