MEDAL, n. A small metal disk given as a reward for virtues, attainments or services more or less authentic. It is related of Bismark, who had been awarded a medal for gallantly rescuing a drowning person, that, being asked the meaning of the medal, he replied: "I save lives sometimes." And sometimes he didn't. - Ambrose Bierce

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Ambrose Bierce: "MEDAL, n. A small metal disk given as a reward for virtues, attainments or services more or less authentic. It is related of Bismark, who had been awarded a medal for gallantly rescuing a drowning person, that, being asked the meaning of the medal, he replied: "I save lives sometimes." And sometimes he didn't."

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Asked	Attainments	Authentic	Awarded
Bismark	Disk	Drowning	Gallantly
Given	Lives	Meaning	Medal
Metal	Person	Related	Replied
Rescuing	Reward	Save	Services
Small	Sometimes	Virtues

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