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About Tell

Tell is both a first name and a surname. Notable people with the name include:

Tell is both a first name and a surname. Notable people with the name include:

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Tell Berna (1891–1975), American long-distance runner and Olympic gold medalist

Tell Taylor (1876–1937), American songwriter

Alma Tell (1898–1937), American actress

Christian Tell (1808–1884), Wallachian and Romanian politician

Christine Tell, Canadian politician

David Tell, American conservative political journalist

Franziska Tell (born 1995), German politician

Marvell Tell (born 1996), American football player

Olive Tell (1894–1951), American actress

William Tell, legendary Swiss hero

William Tell (musician) (born 1980), American rock musician

Zak Tell (born 1970), Swedish musician and lead singer

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“Speak boldly, and speak truly, shame the devil.”
— Beaumont and Fletcher, Wit Without Money (c. 1614; 1639), Act IV, scene 4.
“A heart never created hatred; speech created hatred.”
— Sumerian proverb, Collection I at , .
“Seeing then that we have such hope, we use great plainness of speech.”
— II Corinthians, III. 12.
“It is never so difficult to speak as when we are ashamed of our silence.”
— François de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims. No. 178.
“Deus ille princeps, parens rerum fabricatorque mundi, nullo magis hominem separavit a ceteris, quæ quidem mortalia sunt, animalibus, quam dicendi facultate.”
— God, that all-powerful Creator of nature and Architect of the world, has impressed man with no character so proper to distinguish him from other animals, as by the faculty of speech.
“Il faut distinguer entre parler pour tromper et se taire pour être impénétrable.”
— We must distinguish between speaking to deceive and being silent to be reserved.

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