Counsel

A counsel or a counselor gives advice, more particularly in legal matters.

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Famous quotes containing the word counsel:

    “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)

    “Because just as arms have no force outside if there is no counsel within a house, study is vain and counsel useless that is not put to virtuous effect when the time calls.”
    —François Rabelais (1494–1553)

    “When undertaking marriage, everyone must be the judge of his own thoughts, and take counsel from himself.”
    —François Rabelais (1494–1553)