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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,
G.J.
That life and experience teach:
The poor man suffers that keenest of ills,
An impediment of his reach.