divest oneself
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“The business of life,” he wrote, was “to divest oneself of unnecessary possessions, and mainly of other people.”
From The New Yorker ● Mar. 2, 2015
"Superstition is something that one should divest oneself of," he said.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 12, 2012
It is in practice almost impossible to divest oneself of that parasitic quality however straightforward the general principle may be.
From First and Last Things by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
It is awkward to kick off one's shoes and divest oneself of unnecessary clothing in the water, and Agatha laughed at herself as she did it.
From The Stolen Singer by Martha Idell Fletcher Bellinger
To act morally is to divest oneself of selfishness and attain the privilege of unselfishness.
From Morals and the Evolution of Man by Max Simon Nordau
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