Our Leisure Class by Oliver Herford — Read

Once-and not so terribly long ago at that-we used to be very fond of telling ourselves (and our visitors from Europe) that in America we have no Leisure Class.

That there were people of leisure in our midst, we could not deny, though we preferred to call them idle rich, but as for a special class whose whole business in life was to abstain from all useful activity-oh, no!