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S. Austin Allibone, comp. Prose Quotations from Socrates to Macaulay. 1880.

Counsel

A man may think, if he will, that two eyes see no more than one; or that a gamester seeth always more than a looker-on;… but when all is done, the help of good counsel is that which setteth business strait.

Francis Bacon: Essay XXVIII., Of Friendship.

Though I may not be able to inform men more than they know, yet I may give them the occasion to consider.

Sir William Temple.