The Devil's Dictionary: Reach
Updated May 14, 2020 |
Infoplease Staff
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.
That life and experience teach:
The poor man suffers that keenest of ills,
An impediment of his reach.
-G.J.
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