leisured class
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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
"We're in the business of totally converting the proletariat to the leisured class," Cornfeld boasted.
From Time Magazine Archive
A national debt, he maintains, enriches the capital at the expense of the provinces; further, it creates a leisured class of stockholders, and possesses all the disadvantages of paper credit.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 8 "Hudson River" to "Hurstmonceaux" by Various
The leisured class of England consists of both sexes, that of America practically of one only.
From The Land of Contrasts A Briton's View of His American Kin by Muirhead, James F. (James Fullarton)
They represent the only leisured class in America.
From Post-Prandial Philosophy by Allen, Grant
