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%% The LaTeX Companion, 3ed
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%% Example 4-1-7 on page I-261 in "\LaTeX {}'s generic list environments".
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%% Copyright (C) 2022 Frank Mittelbach
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%% It may be distributed and/or modified under the conditions
%% of the LaTeX Project Public License, either version 1.3c
%% of this license or (at your option) any later version.
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%% See
https://www.latex-project.org/lppl.txt for details.
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\documentclass{tlc3exa}
\pagestyle{empty}
\setcounter{page}{6}
\setlength\textwidth{123.0pt}
\sloppy %as the column in the book is so small
%StartShownPreambleCommands
\newenvironment{Quote}%
{\begin{list}{}{\setlength\rightmargin{\leftmargin}}%
\item[]\makebox[0pt][r]{``}\ignorespaces}%
{\unskip\makebox[0pt][l]{''}\end{list}}
%StopShownPreambleCommands
\begin{document}
A paragraph of text before our display quotation.
\begin{Quote} Some quoted text,
followed by more quoted text. \end{Quote}
Directly following text \ldots
\end{document}