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
As in Egypt, civilization made progress when wealth was accumulated in sufficient abundance to permit of a leisured class devoting time to study and research.
From Myths of Babylonia and Assyria by Mackenzie, Donald Alexander
Thus there would grow up a large body of men and women living segregated in institutions, and forming a leisured class able to superintend institutional charities.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 8 "Chariot" to "Chatelaine" by Various
The leisured class thus became the starving class, and the King's annual subsidies alone kept these families from destitution.
From Old Quebec The Fortress of New France by Bryan, Claude Glennon
