A puzzle - a program printing its own source

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Published on 2009-11-20T14:24:36Z Indexed on 2010/05/06 9:18 UTC
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Blast from the past. This is one of the puzzles from my early days:

Can you write a method (a function) which when called outputs its own source - literally including all the quotes, indentations, etc?

No cheating - no reading from a file

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