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)
“It is a light thing for whoever keeps his foot outside trouble to advise and counsel him that suffers.”
—Aeschylus (525–456 B.C.)
“Where no counsel is, the people fall; but in the multitude of counsellors there is safety.”
—Bible: Hebrew Proverbs, 11:14.