bygone quotes

Her bygone simplicity was the art that conceals art.

-Thomas Hardy
  The Mayor of Casterbridge, ch.15.

Labour once spent has no influence on the future value of any article; it isgone and lost for ever. In commerce bygones are forever bygones; and we are alwaysstarting clearat each moment, judging the values of things with a view to future utility.

-William Stanley Jevons
The Theory of Political Economy.