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by jdsully 2420 days ago
Most countries will forgive two lost passports within a 10 year period. After that they may refuse or give you limited duration documents. This is of course at the discretion of the country issuing the documents - but if they are overly generous it will cause problems with other countries expected to accept the documents.

The main concern is they don't want a bunch of unaccounted for passports lying around. It dramatically increases the risk of fraud.