The Devil's Dictionary: Reach

Updated May 14, 2020 | Infoplease Staff
by Ambrose Bierce
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REACH

-n.

The radius of action of the human hand. The area within which it is possible (and customary) to gratify directly the propensity to provide.

This is a truth, as old as the hills,
That life and experience teach:
The poor man suffers that keenest of ills,
An impediment of his reach.

-G.J.

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