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> [What the worm was to the corpse, his sins would be to the painted image on the canvas. They would mar its beauty, and eat away its grace. they would defile it, and make it shameful. And yet the thing…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/what-the-worm-was-to-the-corpse-his-sins-would-be-to-the-painted/)

[Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/)

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> [“What the worm was to the corpse, his sins would be to the painted image on the canvas.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/what-the-worm-was-to-the-corpse-his-sins-would-be-to-the-painted-2/)

[Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/)

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