leisured class
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"We're in the business of totally converting the proletariat to the leisured class," Cornfeld boasted.
From Time Magazine Archive
A great city also must have within its boundaries a large leisured class to pay for the culture and pleasure that are the outward signs of its preeminence.
From Time Magazine Archive
Renan recognized that a leisured class is the source of civilization; whether he also recognized that there is no earthly reason why a leisured class should be the ruling class is not clear.
From Since Cézanne by Bell, Clive
They represent the only leisured class in America.
From Post-Prandial Philosophy by Allen, Grant
Dickens was too bracing, one may say too bouncing himself to understand the psychology of fatigue in a protected and leisured class.
From Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens by Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)
