Los servidores acumulan los privilegios de la miseria†conservan los instrumentos de la venganza porque van acumulando en sus manos a¤  speras y verrugosas esa otra mitad de sus patrones, la mitad in u¤ til, descartada, lo sucio y lo feo que ellos†les han ido entregando con el insulto de cada enagua gastada que les regalan. Servants accumulate the privileges of misery† They save up the instruments of vengeance because their coarse warty hands collect, bit by bit, that other side of their employersöthe useless, discarded side, the filth and the sordidness that†they've been putting into their servants' hands with the insult of each shabby skirt they gave them.

-Dostoevsky, Fyodor Mikhailovich
  El obsceno pa¤  jaro de la noche, ch.4 (translated as The Obscene Bird of Night,1973).

   We donot expect peopletobe deeply moved by what is not unusual. That element of tragedy which lies in the very fact of frequency, has not yet wrought itself into the coarse emotion of mankind.

-Eliot, George pseudonym of  MaryAnn Evans
^2  Middlemarch, bk.2, ch.20.

Why it was that upon this beautiful feminine tissue, sensitive as gossamer, and practically blank as snow as yet, there should have been traced such a coarse pattern as it was doomed to receive; why so often the coarse appropriates the finer thus, the wrong man the woman, the wrong woman the man, many thousand years of analytical philosophy have failed to explain to our sense of order.

-Hardy,Thomas
Tess of the D'Urbervilles, ch.11.