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Memento Mori
(A). Something to put us in mind of the shortness and
uncertainty of life.
“I make as good use of it [Bardolph's face] as many a man doth of a
death's head or a memento mori.” —Shakespeare: Henry IV., iii.
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Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894 More on Memento Mori from Infoplease:
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