keep one's wits about one
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How difficult it is to keep one's wits about one after what has happened.'
From Celibates by George (George Augustus) Moore
But so it always is when one does not keep one's wits about one.
From Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 2 by Charles Herbert Sylvester
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