keep to oneself
Example Sentences
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Or perhaps they had just learned a lesson that Mr. Tale-Yax so clearly had not: better to keep to oneself than to risk the trouble that comes from extending a helping hand.
From New York Times • Apr. 26, 2010
One should not be an artist save when one absolutely cannot keep to oneself the feeling one has—only when one has too much feeling.
From Pierre and Luce by Rolland, Romain
Does it put one outside the local pale to keep to oneself any painful incident in one's own career?
From The Shadow of the Rope by Hornung, E. W. (Ernest William)
One could buy expensive digital books which one was allowed to share, quote, or copy for classroom use, and cheaper ones which one had to keep to oneself.
From The Public Domain Enclosing the Commons of the Mind by Boyle, James
But how much can anyone keep to oneself?
From Yiddish Tales by Various
