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Which parts of this excerpt from "The Art of Public Speaking" by Dale Carnegie indicate that it is written using second-person point of view?
Do not be disheartened if at first you suffer from stage-fright. Dan Patch was more susceptible to suffering than a superannuated dray horse would be.
It never hurts a fool to appear before an audience, for his capacity is not a capacity for feeling. A blow that would kill a civilized man soon heals on a
savage. The higher we go in the scale of life, the greater is the capacity for suffering.
For one reason or another, some master-speakers never entirely overcome stage-fright, but it will pay you to spare no pains to conquer it. Daniel
Webster failed in his first appearance and had to take his seat without finishing his speech because he was nervous. Gladstone was often troubled with
self-consciousness in the beginning of an address. Beecher was always perturbed before talking in public.

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Answer:

Do not be disheartened if at first you suffer from stage fright.

Step-by-step explanation:

In the second person point of view, the author directly addresses the reader. You can tell that the chosen passage is in the second person because it uses the pronoun "you."

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