The Bet
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- The death sentence and the life sentence are equallyimmoral, but if I had to choose between the death penalty andimprisonment for life, I would certainly choose the second. Tolive anyhow is better than not at all."
- "I don't agree with you," said their host thebanker. "I have not tried either the death penalty orimprisonment for life, but if one may judge a priori, the deathpenalty is more moral and more humane than imprisonment forlife
- "It's not true! I'll bet you two million you wouldn't stay in solitary confinement for five years."
- "If you mean that in earnest," said the young man, "I'll take the bet, but I would stay not five but fifteen years."
- He left hours before the deadline? Yessss.
- "Think better of it, young man, while there is still time. To me two million is a trifle, but you are losing three or four of the best years of your life
- 15 Years Pass
- I'm going to go broke if I actually pay that young lawyer. After losing all my money gambling in the stock market I have barely anything. I'm surprised he even stayed.
- "To prove to you in action how I despise all that you live by, I renounce the two million of which I once dreamed as of paradise and which now I despise. To deprive myself of the right to the money I shall go out from here five hours before the time fixed, and so break the compact..."
- "To prove to you in action how I despise all that you live by, I renounce the two million of which I once dreamed as of paradise and which now I despise. To deprive myself of the right to the money I shall go out from here five hours before the time fixed, and so break the compact..."
- This means I won the bet. I was right and he did fifteen years for nothing not even a pennie. It seems hes went insane.
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