The opinion I have of the generality of women – who appear to me as children to whom I would rather give a sugar Plum than my time, form a barrier against Matrimony which I rejoice in.

Source:Letter to George and Georgiana Keats (October 1818); in The Complete Works of John Keats (ed. Gowans & Gray, 1900), Volume IV, Page 187
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