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More Thoughts About Blockquotes than are Strictly Required

So, we went looking for a semantic element to wrap this pattern in, and for a few reasons, we arrived at figure:

<span class="token tag"><span class="token punctuation"><</span>figure <span class="token attr-name">class</span><span class="token attr-value"><span class="token punctuation">=</span><span class="token punctuation">"</span>quote<span class="token punctuation">"</span></span><span class="token punctuation">></span></span>
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     <span class="token tag"><span class="token punctuation"><</span>figcaption<span class="token punctuation">></span></span>Sherlock Holmes, <span class="token tag"><span class="token punctuation"><</span>cite<span class="token punctuation">></span></span>Sign of Four<span class="token tag"><span class="token punctuation"></</span>cite<span class="token punctuation">></span></span><span class="token tag"><span class="token punctuation"></</span>figcaption<span class="token punctuation">></span></span>
<span class="token tag"><span class="token punctuation"></</span>figure<span class="token punctuation">></span></span>