"Michel Boucher" > wrote in message

> Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American
> public. (H.L. Mencken)

I had thought that PT Barnum said that. I did a google search and it
attributes the saying (about evenly at a quick glance) to both of them.

My favourite Mencken quote is:
"Puritanism. The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy."