A counsel or a counselor gives advice, more particularly in legal matters.
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Famous quotes containing the word counsel:
“Pause awhile,
And let my counsel sway you in this case.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there is between the counsel of a friend and of a flatterer. For there is no such flatterer as is a man’s self.”
—Francis Bacon (1561–1626)
“Is all the counsel that we two have shared,
The sisters’ vows, the hours that we have spent
When we have chid the hasty-footed time
For parting us—O, is all forgot?
All schooldays’ friendship, childhood innocence?”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)