Came across this article
Guide to Razors | Waremakers
which included a quote by Oliver Wendell Holmes regarding shaving with a "new" safety razor.
Thought it was interesting, since it sounds like something a Straight shaver would say about switching to straights, "and in fact had become a pleasant amusement instead of an irksome task."

An excerpt (Underline added )
The next big breakthrough did not come until around 1875 when, in New York City, the Kampfe brothers started selling the first razor actually labelled a safety razor.
The main difference from the Perret design was that the Kampfe brother's "Star" razor put the blade on top of a "box" at the end of a handle. Much like today's razors. The user would then glide this box across the skin and as the blade protruded slightly beyond the edge of the box, it would cut off the hair. The blade could be removed, sharpened and re-used.
The "Star" razor was the first "safety razor" and sparked a small revolution.The American poet Oliver Wendell Holmes wrote about his first experience with a Kampfe razor in 1887:
"The mowing operation [..] could be performed with almost reckless boldness as one cannot cut himself, and in fact had become a pleasant amusement instead of an irksome task. I have never used any other means of shaving from that day to this."