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
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
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
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