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I believe, here in England, all paper money paid into the bank is destroyed, and new issued in its stead, and that this accounts for our clean, crisp, and undilapidated notes.

From The Truth About America by Money, Edward

A curse was thought to hang over it, but that curse, as it happened, was its preservation in the undilapidated state in which it stood.

From The Evil Eye; Or, The Black Spector The Works of William Carleton, Volume One by Carleton, William