George Washington's Rules of Civility

<p>As a schoolboy in Virginia George Washington took his first steps toward greatness by hand copying a list of 110 Rules of Civility & Decent Behavior in Company and Conversation. Based on a 16th-century set of precepts compiled for young gentlemen by Jesuit instructors the Rules of Civility were one of the earliest and most powerful forces to shape America's first president.</p><p>Most of the Rules are concerned with details of etiquette offering pointers on such issues as how to dres