A counsel or a counselor gives advice, more particularly in legal matters.
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Famous quotes containing the word counsel:
“Two may keep counsel when the third’s away.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“Where no counsel is, the people fall; but in the multitude of counsellors there is safety.”
—Bible: Hebrew Proverbs, 11:14.
“Please do not take counsel of women who are so prejudiced that, as I once heard said, they would not allow a male grasshopper to chirp on their lawn; but out of your own great heart, refuse to set an example to such folly.”
—Frances E. Willard (1839–1898)