The Devil’s Dictionary by Abrose Bierce

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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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