Initially, Holliday casually says the line to Ringo during a tense standoff at the brothel, in which the two nearly get into a gunfight before Earp diffuses the situation. Although Ringo expects to ...

“Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence; true friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks ...