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Heaven hears and pities hapless men like me, For sacred ev'n to gods is misery. -- Homer
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Most traditional ghost stories feature rather hapless protagonists, who have nasty things happen to them. -- Jonathan Stroud
I'm sympathetic to the decent and hapless footsoldier into whose lap falls the unenviable duty of carrying out fubar policies. -- Rene Balcer
Oh, stay, sweet warbling woodlark, stay, Nor quit for me the trembling spray, A hapless lover courts thy lay, Thy soothing, fond complaining. -- Robert Burns
On this hapless earth There 's small sincerity of mirth, And laughter oft is but an art To drown the outcry of the heart. -- Hartley Coleridge
The hapless wit has his labors always to begin, the call for novelty is never satisfied, and one jest only raises expectation of another. -- Samuel Johnson
The gentle maid, whose hapless tale,these melancholy pages speak;say, gracious lady, shall she failTo draw the tear a down from thy cheek? -- Horace Walpole
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I am hoping for better times. That's how you know us hapless gardeners - by our dirty fingernails and our absurd, unquenchable optimism about next year. -- Mary McGrory
Traps!" he said. "Never in the world! Don't think it! Why, Gower is just a necessary olf bore. Nobody's supposed to know much about him--except instructors and their hapless students. -- Henry Blake Fuller
In the modern-day world, where time is premium and battle for subsistence is unimaginably tough, the hapless common man simply gives in and pays the bribe just to get on with life. -- Shaffi Mather
There are those who condemn five in midfield as a negative tactic, but when a side's centre-backs are as hapless as Chris Perry and Hermann Hreidarsson were on Sunday, it is not nearly negative enough. -- Matthew Engel

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