# Quote — Thomas Chandler Haliburton, The Clockmaker

> We can do without any article of luxury we have never had; but when once obtained, it is not 'in human natur' to surrender it voluntarily.

- Author: [Thomas Chandler Haliburton](https://www.leafyquotes.com/thomas-chandler-haliburton.md)
- Book: [The Clockmaker](https://www.leafyquotes.com/thomas-chandler-haliburton/the-clockmaker.md)
- Page: 15
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Thomas_Chandler_Haliburton#The_Clockmaker_(1838)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/thomas-chandler-haliburton/the-clockmaker/we-can-do-without

## More from this book

> A woman, a dog, and a walnut tree,
>
> The more you lick ’em the better they be.

p. 245 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/thomas-chandler-haliburton/the-clockmaker/a-woman-a-dog.md)

> We reckon hours and minutes to be dollars and cents.

p. 10 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/thomas-chandler-haliburton/the-clockmaker/we-reckon-hours.md)