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All Cabinet Ministers and other senior ministers are still sworn in as Privy Counsellors for life. The oath (which dates back to the thirteenth-century and has been described as Britain's oldest secrecy provision) commits them to keep all advice to the monarch secret. -- Clive Ponting
Where there are many counsellors there is safety. -- Edward Coke
Deceit is in the heart of them that imagine evil: but to the counsellors of peace is joy -- Bible
We didn't have counsellors rushing around every time somebody let off a gun. You just got on with it! -- Prince Philip
It was observed of Elizabeth that she was weak herself, but chose wise counsellors; to which it was replied, that to choose wise counsellors was, in a prince, the highest wisdom. -- Charles Caleb Colton
In science, as in art, and, as I believe, in every other sphere of human activity, there may be wisdom in a multitude of counsellors, but it is only in one or two of them. -- Thomas Huxley

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