In other words, a prosperous country is a decadent country, in pursuit of easy pleasure and easy pain.
A modest increase in top tax rates would not compromise prosperous families' abilities to enjoy such pleasures.
She's intensely conscious of the gap in comforts and pleasures that distinguishes her from more prosperous children, but not of any gap in care or health.
Andrew Jackson, 1835: In performing my duty at the opening of your present session it gives me pleasure to congratulate you again upon the prosperous condition of our beloved country.
Over the past quarter-century, like other New Yorkers, I've enjoyed the pleasures of a safer, cleaner and more prosperous city.
There was indeed a time when Greenville's main drag was lined with cotton factors and the Greenville waterfront was bustling and planter families were prosperous enough to spin off remittance men devoted to the pleasures of the New Orleans French Quarter.
There is always pleasure to be had from the terrorisation of the smug and prosperous middle classes, and in 24 Hours (Hodder and Stoughton, £10) Greg Iles's kidnap plot ensures that the parents of the abducted girl are suitably complacent.
A more prosperous Britain.
