"""Your books have given me wisdom" describe the wisdom acquired by the lawyer referring the story 'The Bet'.""

Very
intense reading has brought about a complete transformation in the lawyer. From a man desiring
to be a millionaire, he has become a person who despises the idea of accumulating material
wealth or the so-called riches of the world.

The greatest wisdom that he has
acquired in the fifteen-year long period of his solitary captivity is that he has
understood the transient nature of human life and, thus, the futility to heap up wealth or
gratify oneself with sensuous delight.

The mortal nature of
human body and the pointlessness to invest ones most...