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 leisured class had come into existence, with the result that culture was fostered and civilization advanced.
From Myths of Babylonia and Assyria by Donald Alexander Mackenzie
Economics, therefore, under modern conditions, is not only a subject which may usefully occupy the attention of a leisured class of scientific men.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 10 "Echinoderma" to "Edward" by Various
The cane seems to be a distinguishing mark of the leisured class.
From African Camp Fires by Stewart Edward White
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