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
For in a new and sparsely settled country there is no wealthy leisured class who have much time to devote to fishing.
From Fishing in British Columbia With a Chapter on Tuna Fishing at Santa Catalina by Thomas Wilson Lambert
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
They represent the only leisured class in America.
From Post-Prandial Philosophy by Grant Allen
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