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

In one of his early essays Renan points out that the proper apology for the old French aristocracy is that it performed the proper function of a leisured class.

From Since Cézanne by Bell, Clive

Renan recognized that a leisured class is the source of civilization; whether he also recognized that there is no earthly reason why a leisured class should be the ruling class is not clear.

From Since Cézanne by Bell, Clive

Here are the best shops, the banks, and those elegant and ostentatious casinos, where the aristocracy and leisured class lounge and smoke, and survey at their ease the unceasing procession of passers by.

From Southern Spain by Calvert, A. F. (Albert Frederick)