It is in some ways more troublesome to track and swat an evasive wasp …

C. S. Lewis
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It is in some ways more troublesome to track and swat an evasive wasp than to shoot, at close range, a wild elephant. But the elephant is more troublesome if you miss. ✨ C. S. Lewis (2002). The World's Last Night: And Other Essays, p.72, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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It is in some ways more troublesome to track and swat an evasive wasp than to shoot, at close range, a wild elephant. But the elephant is more troublesome if you miss. ✨ C. S. Lewis (2002). The World's Last Night: And Other Essays, p.72, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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