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
Their own standard of culture was higher than that of the leisured class to-day; but they took little interest in the lives of the poor, until they were forced to do so.
From The Victorian Age The Rede Lecture for 1922 by Inge, William Ralph
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)
But the real link was that they both instinctively threw overboard all but the essential; they cared comparatively little for most of the preoccupations and smaller solicitudes of the women in their own leisured class.
From Bird of Paradise by Leverson, Ada
