[Tex/LaTex] “Inspirational” quote at start of chapter

chaptersquoting

I recall seeing a package to make quotes like that of the following image at the start of a chapter, but I can't seem to find it again.

Combinatorics and Graph Theory

(This image is from the book Combinatorics and Graph Theory by Harris, Hirst, and Mossinghoff)

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I think it is the package epigraph and is included in both TeX Live and MiKTeX distributions.

\documentclass{book}
\usepackage{epigraph}
\begin{document}
\chapter{First Chapter}
\epigraph{I recall seeing a package to make quotes}{Snowball}
\end{document}

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Here is an example that uses one of the KOMA-Script classes to achieve a similar effect:

\documentclass[pagesize=auto, version=last, chapterprefix=true]{scrbook}

\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{amsfonts}

\renewcommand*{\thesection}{\S\enspace\arabic{section}}
\renewcommand*{\dictumwidth}{0.7\textwidth}
\renewcommand*{\raggeddictum}{\raggedright}
\renewcommand*{\raggeddictumtext}{}

\addtokomafont{disposition}{\rmfamily\mdseries}
\addtokomafont{chapterprefix}{\large}
\setkomafont{dictumtext}{\normalfont\normalcolor\itshape\setlength{\parindent}{1em}\noindent}


\begin{document}


\setchapterpreamble{%
  \dictum{%
    The notion of prime number is fundamental in number theory.
    The first part of this chapter is devoted to proving that every integer can be written as a product of primes in an essentially unique way.

    After that, we shall prove an analogous theorem in the ring of polynomials over a field.%
  }%
  \vspace{24pt}%
}

\chapter{Unique Factorization}

\section{Unique Factorization in $\mathbb Z$}


\end{document}

[Tex/LaTex] Automatic noindent after quote environment

As Gonzalo said, "[d]on't leave a blank line after \end{quote} (or comment out the blank line)". However, by removing the indentation from the following "paragraph", you are in fact denoting that the paragraph which includes the quote environment is continued -- which may or may not be the case. Text quotes may constitute a paragraph of their own, they may close a more substantial paragraph, and they may even be positioned in the midst of such a paragraph. Only in the last case is it appropriate to remove the indentation after the quote environment.

Shameless plug: My quoting package provides the quoting environment which also allows to control first-line indentation by adding/removing a blank line before the environment.

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