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Shakespeare doesn't say this; Romeo does. Romeo has just spotted the most gorgeous girl he has ever seen at a party. It is, of course, Juliet. He is trying to describe just how beautiful she is.

You know how sometimes someone decorates a cake so beautifully that you don't want to wreck it by cutting it? That cake has a beauty too rich for use; it is so lovely you just want to stare at it, because using it would make it less beautiful. Romeo feels the same way about Juliet, that she is too good to be treated like any ordinary girl.

He says also that she is too valuable ("dear") to be on the earth; she should be in heaven or something.

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