Machiavellianism Scale - Mach IV (Version 1)
“It is wise to flatter important people.”
CITM_f69a379b07cc · 2 source instruments · 1 surface variant
it is wise to flatter important people
Normalization rule (PRN-050): lowercase, strip non-word/space punctuation, collapse whitespace, trim. Used for fast dedup matching across the instrument corpus.
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“It is wise to flatter important people.”
“It is wise to flatter important people.”
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