That was the advice of thousands of parents to their sons at the beginning of the founding fathers of the "expatriates" who conquered the vast country which we now know as the United States of America. Then, as now, there were restraining hands, urging people not to go and exploit the opportunities which the new frontiers presented.
Many of those who ventured forth became rich beyond their wildest dreams. The early Pilgrims had landed and settled on the East Coast of America, without realizing that the vast agricultural and mineral deposits that were later to make America great were west of their own territory.
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