concern oneself
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I'll tell you something, Loth … Pshaw, why concern oneself with it at all.
From The Dramatic Works of Gerhart Hauptmann Volume I by Hauptmann, Gerhart
And in any case, if trouble can be deferred until to-morrow, why concern oneself over it?
From 54-40 or Fight by Hough, Emerson
The thing to concern oneself with is the question, "which of these makes the nearer approach to the truth?"
From The Kempton-Wace Letters by London, Jack
When it is at all possible, and in most cases it is, one ought to concern oneself with a man's style,—the handwriting of his soul.
From Criminal Psychology; a manual for judges, practitioners, and students by Gross, Hans Gustav Adolf
He saw that to concern oneself wholly with the unknowable is to rob the world of the things in which are its life.
From Their Yesterdays by Wright, Harold Bell