"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."

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JESTER, n. An officer attached to the king's household to amuse the court by ludicrous actions and utterances . . . the king's own conduct and decrees [being] sufficiently ridiculous for the amusement not only of his court but of all mankind.

— Ambrose Bierce