The past is a work of art, free of irrelevancies and loose ends.
Source: In The Speaker's Electronic Reference Collection, AApex Software, 1994.
-- Max Beerbohm, (Aug 24 1872-1956), English essayist, caricaturist, parodist; The Incomparable Max wrote many elegant essays; the novel Zuleika Dobson 1911, and a pictorial volume of caricatures.