Attractiveness of dress, surroundings, and personal appearance is a duty; because it gives free exercise to our higher and nobler sentiments; elevates and enlarges our lives; while discomfort and repulsiveness in these things lower our standards, and drive us to the baser elements of our nature in search of cheap forms of self-indulgence to take the place of that natural delight in attractive dress and surroundings which has been repressed.
"Practical Ethics"
William DeWitt Hyde
You have no idea of the moral repulsiveness of this Curort life.
"The Letters of William James, Vol. II"
William James
Custom has robbed this relict of a former age of much of its repulsiveness; but it is not the less hurtful on that account.
"A Practical Enquiry into the Philosophy of Education"
James Gall