Review "Failure a Stepping Stone to Success." Which structural element is the underlined sentence, and what is the
author's most likely purpose for including it in the text?
It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success; they more often succeed through failure. There were hours of
sadness when Shakespeare thought himself no poet and Raphael no painter, when the greatest wits doubted the excellence
of their happiest efforts.
Those Who Fail Often Succeed
Many fail again and again before they finally succeed. If they have pluck, the failure will only serve to strengthen their
energies and stimulate them to renewed efforts. No one can tell how many of the world's most brilliant geniuses have
succeeded because of their first failures.
The underlined sentence is
The author's most likely purpose for including it in the text is