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go west, young man

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Go west, young man

A favorite saying of the nineteenth-century journalist Horace Greeley, referring to opportunities on the frontier. Another writer, John Soule, apparently originated it.

The American Heritage® New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition
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