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Go west, young man

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


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It seems to us a very little thing to give or take the advice, "Go West young man,—or woman."

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