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Punctuation goes inside the quotation marks.
Story is that this rule was created in the days when a period (full stop) could be physically lost in a row of type if it were outside the closing quotation mark. Dunno if this is true or not; perhaps Pfranz could tell us. As far as I'm concerned the primary rule is that the punctuation goes inside the quotation marks if it is part of the quotation.
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