A counsel or a counselor gives advice, more particularly in legal matters.
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Famous quotes containing the word counsel:
“But thus I counsel you, my friends: mistrust everyone in whom the impulse to punish is strong!”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
“Two may keep counsel when the third’s away.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“It is far easier for the proverbial camel to pass through the needle’s eye, hump and all, than for an erstwhile colonial administration to give sound and honest counsel of a political nature to its liberated territory.”
—Kwame Nkrumah (1900–1972)