Completely Wipe My MacBook Pro

I bought my MacBook Pro in September of 2010. Since then I have only downloaded OS X Mountain Lion & now OS X Mavericks.
I would like to completley wipe my my MacBook Pro clean to return it to right out of the box settings!
How would I go about doing this?

Hello, follow these instructions:
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