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Go west, young man

Cultural  

  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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Go west, young man, said Jefferson�and westward Lewis went.

From Time Magazine Archive

Go west, young man, the play seems to say; you're doomed to it.

From Time Magazine Archive

The best advice a London hack could give to a Gigadibs would be Go west, young man.

From Essays on Modern Novelists by Phelps, William Lyon

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