A counsel or a counselor gives advice, more particularly in legal matters.
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Famous quotes containing the word counsel:
“When undertaking marriage, everyone must be the judge of his own thoughts, and take counsel from himself.”
—François Rabelais (1494–1553)
“If the guardian or the mother
Tell the woes of willful waste,
Scorn their counsel and their pother,
You can hang or drown at last.”
—Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)
“Pause awhile,
And let my counsel sway you in this case.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)