limit oneself to
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Sam: When it comes to snacking there’s no need to limit oneself to just chips or light meals.
From Slate ● Mar. 2, 2023
"It won't be enough to limit oneself to cosmetic economic measures," he said.
From BBC ● Sep. 27, 2022
The great events which shape the destinies of peoples— revolutions, for example, and the outbreak of religious beliefs— are sometimes so difficult to explain that one must limit oneself to a mere statement.
From The Psychology of Revolution by Gustave Le Bon
No, no; it does not do to limit oneself to oneself, and to struggle upward for one's individual spiritual freedom.
From The Malady of the Century by Max Simon Nordau
I longed for a new religion, which should develop itself out of the old one; yet one learns gradually to limit oneself to the Possible.
From Withered Leaves. Vol. I. (of III) A Novel by Rudolf von Gottschall
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