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