Flora: "I think that Maud has been awfully mean to you. If I were you I'd get even with her."
Dora: "Getting even with her won't satisfy me. I'm going to get uneven with her."
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GETTING ON
Old Gentleman: "Well, children! and what are you learning at school?"
Small Boy: "Oh, she's learning to make paper dolls and I'm learning to knock spots out of Willie Jones."
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LITERALLY
He: "I understand that she fairly threw herself at him."