You should be very careful with your pretenses, for you are what you pretend to be. When you wish for something, two things will happen. One of them is that you don't get your wish. The other is that you do. Gentlemen's agreements can get very ungentlemanly.
Verbal agreements lead to verbal disagreements.
Temper is what gets most of us into trouble. Pride is what keeps us there. No good deed goes unpunished. To go to bed late and get up early, makes a man cross, mean, and surly. Something might be gaining on you.