concern oneself with

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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

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

It would be an encroachment upon his privileges to concern oneself with them.

From Mentally Defective Children by Binet, Alfred

Until one has fulfilled the first, it is futile to concern oneself with the second.

From The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali: the Book of the Spiritual Man by Johnston, Charles

The virtues are a tendency to mysticism, a need to concern oneself with the unseen; the vices, a non-immunity to fanaticism and bigotry.

From The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19 by Morris, Kenneth