do one's duty

Example Sentences

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"I felt it was my duty to come. I certainly felt it would be an unpleasant experience, but that's not a good enough reason not to do one's duty."

From BBC • Dec. 5, 2013

“When one has boys, one must do one’s duty by them; but it was confoundedly hard, by Jove!”

From Not Like Other Girls by Carey, Rosa Nouchette

In this moment of exaltation, to return safely to base, simply to do one’s duty, seemed too little to these fearless men.

From The Literary World Seventh Reader by Metcalf, John Calvin

To do one's duty as a doctor, with one's sole aim the physical health of the patient, may mean to advise what runs counter to the present-day code of morals.

From The Nervous Housewife by Myerson, Abraham

But if, to be a man of business, it is not enough to do one's duty scrupulously, but the very heart must be in it, then is there something wrong with business.

From A Rough Shaking by MacDonald, George