A counsel or a counselor gives advice, more particularly in legal matters.
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Famous quotes containing the word counsel:
“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)
“Two may keep counsel when the third’s away.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“Where two take counsel there is no lack of plans.”
—Silius Italicus (26–101)