distantfriends grow ever distant,friends at hand grow closer still ❍ 自此高俅遭际在王都尉府中出入，如同家人一般。自古道： “～。” (《水浒全传》12) From then on Gao remained with the prince,coming and going like one of the family. As the old saying has it: “Distant friends grow ever distant,friends at hand grow closer still.”