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The foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing is growing into fashion. He hopes the officers will, by example as well as influence, endeavour to check it... added to this, it is a vice so mean and low, without any temptation, that every man of sense and character detests and despises it.
— George Washington ·
Civility & Conduct

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General Orders, Continental Army, August 3, 1776 (Headquarters, New York)

📅 1776

📂 Civility & Conduct