Alan Angel Photography - Wedding and portrait photographer covering North West England. Brief portfolio and contact details.
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- Samuel Johnson If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would
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-- Schopenhauer A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
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Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb "Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
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-- Thomas Jefferson The man with the best job in the country is the Vice President. All he has to do is get up every
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Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
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-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops
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-- H.L. Mencken Arts and Entertainment Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
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-- Oscar Wilde The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
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-- William James Arts and Entertainment
Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
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-- W. Somerset Maugham Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing.
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Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
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-- Groucho Marx Arts and Entertainment
Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage
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-- Will Rogers Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to
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