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.
“Critics generally come to be critics not by reason of their fitness for this, but of their unfitness for anything else. Books should be tried by a judge and jury as though they were a crime, and counsel should be heard on both sides.”
—Samuel Butler (1835–1902)