Prose quotations may be taken from a speech or an interview, or from printed material such as a book, report, or bulletin. The more significant the quoted statement, the more effective will be the introduction. When the quotation consists of several sentences or of one long sentence, it may comprise the first paragraph, to be followed in the second paragraph by the necessary explanation.
Popular sayings, slogans, or current phrases are not always enclosed in quotation marks, but are often set off in a separate paragraph as a striking form of beginning.
The most conspicuous quotation beginnings are reproductions of newspaper clippings, advertisements, price lists, menus, telegrams, invitations, or parts of legal documents. These are not infrequently reproduced as nearly as possible in the original form and may be enclosed in a frame, or "box."
Quotation Beginnings
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(New York Evening Post)
"DIGNIFIED AND STATELY"
Being an Account of Some High and Low Jinks Practiced About This Time on College Class Days
BY EVA ELISE VOM BAUR
Our sorrows are forgotten,
And our cares are flown away,
While we go marching through Princeton.