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
In such surroundings one can most easily keep to oneself, for every walk presents objects of an important kind, and satisfies the want of men and things.
From Correspondence of Wagner and Liszt — Volume 2 by Francis Hueffer
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 E. W. (Ernest William) Hornung
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 James Boyle
But how much can anyone keep to oneself?
From Yiddish Tales by Various
