"They do not," said Pekuah, "want that unaffecting and ignoble beauty which may subsist without sprightliness or sublimity, without energy of thought or dignity of virtue.
"Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia"
Samuel Johnson
But, whatever these powers are, or upon what principle soever they affect the mind, it is absolutely necessary that they should not be exerted in those things which a daily and vulgar use have brought into a stale unaffecting familiarity.
"The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. I. (of 12)"
Edmund Burke
Indeed so far are use and habit from being causes of pleasure merely as such, that the effect of constant use is to make all things of whatever kind entirely unaffecting.
"The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. I. (of 12)"
Edmund Burke