And always, night and day, he was in the mountains, and in the tombs, crying, and cutting himself with stones. But when he saw Jesus afar off, he ran and worshipped him, And cried with a loud voice, and said, What have I to do with thee, Jesus, thou Son of the most high God? I adjure thee by God, that thou torment me not. Mark 5:5-7 Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.

H. L. Mencken (1880-1956) was an American journalist, essayist, satirist, cultural critic, and scholar of American English.

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