A counsel or a counselor gives advice, more particularly in legal matters.
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Famous quotes containing the word counsel:
“Because just as arms have no force outside if there is no counsel within a house, study is vain and counsel useless that is not put to virtuous effect when the time calls.”
—François Rabelais (1494–1553)
“It is a light thing for whoever keeps his foot outside trouble to advise and counsel him that suffers.”
—Aeschylus (525–456 B.C.)
“Two may keep counsel when the third’s away.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)