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[[File:Gilbert-Stuart 1795 Washington-portrait.jpg|thumbnail|right|250px|"Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad company." - [[George Washington]] ]]
'''Rules of Civility and Decent Behaviour In Company and Conversation''' is a book that is associated with [[George Washington]] through his archives at Mount Vernon.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=2TU6AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA411 (v. 3-8) Comprising correspondence and miscellaneous papers relating to the American Revolution], 1838</ref>  Early on, the rules were thought to have been authored by Washington himself, but a historian named Moncure D. Conway traced the rules back to French origin.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=-EAHAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA7 George Washington's Rules of civility]</ref>

It is believed that young George Washington was taught these rules at a young age by Captain Augustine Washington.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=0jQFAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA13 George Washington: Patriot, Soldier, Statesman : First President of the United States]</ref>

==See also==
*[[Pragmatic language]]

==References==
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==External links==
* [https://archive.org/details/georgewashington00unse George Washington's rules of civility and decent behavior: in company and conversation], on [[Archive.org]]

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