"plaster saint" meaning in English

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        "Someone who makes a show of being benevolent and morally upright, often in a hypocritical way."
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          "ref": "1892, Rudyard Kipling, Tommy:",
          "text": "We aren’t no thin red ’eroes, nor we aren’t no blackguards too,\n But single men in barricks, most remarkable like you;\nAn’ if sometimes our conduck isn’t all your fancy paints,\nWhy, single men in barricks don’t grow into plaster saints;",
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