# Quote — Thomas De Quincey, Confessions of an English Opium-Eater

> In many walks of life, a conscience is a more expensive encumbrance than a wife or a carriage.

- Author: [Thomas De Quincey](https://www.leafyquotes.com/thomas-de-quincey.md)
- Book: [Confessions of an English Opium-Eater](https://www.leafyquotes.com/thomas-de-quincey/confessions-of-an-english-opium-eater.md)
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## More from this book

> Call for the grandest of all earthly spectacles, what is that? It is the sun going to his rest. Call for the grandest of all human sentiments, what is that? It is that man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep.

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> A promise is binding in the inverse ratio of the numbers to whom it is made.

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> Flowers … that are so pathetic in their beauty, frail as the clouds, and in their colouring as gorgeous as the heavens, had through thousands of years been the heritage of children—honoured as the jewellery of God only by them—when suddenly the voice of Christianity, counter-signing the voice of infancy, raised them to a grandeur transcending the Hebrew throne, although founded by God himself, and pronounced Solomon in all his glory not to be arrayed like one of these.

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