"Anything worth doing is worth doing well.”
Philip Stanhope is credited with first writing a form of this quote to his son in 1746. I heard it many years back, likely from my parents, and I found myself repeating it to our adult son just the other day. He is studying to write his third-year test for an apprenticeship program at a polytechnic school close to home.
Upon hearing me say this, he smirked and jokingly rolled his eyes at me, followed with, “I know, Mom.”
I guess I’ve said this a time or two to him in the past, but my memory is a little foggy these days. Perhaps I needed to hear it sp...
