Herman Melville. Moby dick or the White whale (№ 391949)

Who among us is not a slave, tell me? (...) this is all par for the course that everyone gets about the same - that is, of course, whether in physical or in the metaphysical sense; and thus one of the universal cuff is transmitted from person to person, and everyone in the community feels rather than the elbow, and the fist neighbor, than we should settle for.